Beware of geeks bearing gifts: “Microsoft’s

decision to slash the price of the

Windows Millennium Edition

upgrade from $89 to $59 — a whopping 33 percent savings

— made headlines this week. But the public should beware

of geeks bearing gifts. Windows Me has some significant

improvements, but for most users those improvements do

not justify the pain and potential dangers they will face with

this upgrade. Microsoft can lower the price of Windows Me

and give it a few great features, but it can’t fundamentally

make Me a better operating system than Windows 95,

because of underlying technical flaws with the whole

Windows operating environment.” Salon