

While existing 98 drivers usually "worked", they were often buggy and unstable under ME. However with the news that this architecture was at an end, vendors did not update their Windows 98 drivers for Windows ME. Microsoft had made numerous internal changes at the device driver level. Windows ME was often criticized for its poor stability. Like Windows 95 and Windows 98 it used the same hybrid 16/32 bit kernel that ran on top of a bundled version of DOS (MS-DOS 8.0). Windows Millennium Edition (internally Windows 4.90) was the last in the line of DOS-based Windows products.
