About ME

Michael Burleson

Erie, Pennsylvania, United States

A successor to Windows 95 and Windows 98, I was marketed as a "Home Edition" when compared to Windows 2000 which had been released seven months earlier. I provided Internet Explorer 5.5, Windows Media Player 7, and the new Windows Movie Maker software, which provided basic video editing and was designed to be easy for home users. Microsoft also updated the graphical user interface in me with some of the features that were first introduced in Windows 2000.

Unlike the "Home" edition of Windows XP which would replace me a year later, I am not built on the Windows NT architecture of Microsoft's professional operating system at the time. I am an MS-DOS (Windows 9x) based version like its predecessors but with access to real mode MS-DOS restricted for faster system boot time. This was one of the most publicized changes in me because applications that needed real mode DOS to run (such as older disk utilities) would not run under me.

Compared with other releases, I had a short shelf-life; I was soon replaced by Windows XP, which was launched on October 25, 2001.

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