WindowsME
Crash Alert
This comes to us via "email" from a fan club member Kev in Vancouver. The following is the story of a guy who installed ME, this story must be told to avoid others from making similar mistakes.
Dear Conrad & Joel's Online:
        Hey guys just want to say I love you website and what you guys are doing. I have a story to tell and it would be great if I could get the word out with your help. So without further ado, I've been a hard core Windows 98 user for many years, and I recently decided that the system needed a new OS to propel me into a new era of computing. So I went to the nearest computer store to picked up a copy of this new Windows ME. It says on the box: 'Easy upgrade from Windows 95/98. Runs better and is more reliable that previous versions' Wow! I was sold! I drove back to my apartment high-rise on this summer afternoon and took the elevator to the top. Minutes later I was opening the rather large package. After sifting through the endless advertisement inserts, free trial offers CDs, and useless English/French manuals (the kind that no matter which way you flip them it's impossible to get the English side right-side-up) I finally found what I was looking for, the actual shinny holographic-like Windows CD! Which I promptly inserted into my CD-ROM. A moment goes by and nothing happens. A silence falls over the room. I look at my computer, the computer just sits staring back, as if mocking me. All the sudden a loud blast coming from my computer speakers breaking the silence! Yes, it finally decided to load it's startup screen integrated with hip new Microsoft theme music, which insolently does not sound as great when you computer speaker volume is mistakenly set at full. After the initial heart attack, which lasted upwards of a minute, I reached over to turn down the speakers, in the process, knocking over some garbage that had been sitting on the desk for the past week. To my dismay the garbage included a nearly full can of this new drink that's all the rage called Dr. Zip. The blaring speaker falls behind my desk leaving a path of destruction and knocking the phone off the hook. But my new concern was to get this cold liquid that has nearly all soaked through my pants and is now dripping down onto the brand new carpet cleaned up before my landlord notices a permanent stain. I grabbed a rag from the floor, or what possibly could have been a dirty T-shirt, and wiped up the sticky pop. Then proceeded to find the speaker and turn the volume down.

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