Comparison & Contrast of Windows & Windows Me

Comparison and Contrast

Windows & Windows Me

Pamela R Kerr

NTC / 410

Richard Bohn

June 22, 2005

Comparison and Contrast Windows & Windows Me

This paper will identify comparison and contrast of Windows and Windows Me, which will include the program description, planning the scope and plan objectives, vocabulary definitions, project control, schedule of deliverables and resource requirements. When Windows first hit the market in 1985, it failed miserably. The over-priced, under-powered computers of the day busted a bearing over WindowsЎ¦ attempts at fancy graphics. Back then, Windows was not only slow. But, it also looked dorky and awkward with ugly colors. Windows has turned into a trendy best-seller installed on nearly every new computer.

What are Windows and Windows Me? Windows is just another piece of software, like the zillions of others lining the store shelves. I feel Windows is not a program in the normal sense, but it is something that lets you write letters or lets your coworkers play Bozark the Destroyer over the office network after everybody else goes home. Rather, Windows controls the way you work with your computer.

For years, computers have clung to a typewriter-style of work. Just as on a typewriter, people type letters and numbers into the computer. I have learned over the years that the computer listens and then places letters and numbers onto the screen and this time tested system works well. But, I also feel it takes a long time to learn and it is as boring as reading the ingredients on a jar of reduced fat peanut butter.

The method is boring because computer engineers designed computers for other engineers many moons ago. They thought that computers would be forever isolated in narrow hallways where somber youngsters with crew-cuts, clipboards and white lab coats jotted down notes while the big reels whirled. Nobody expected normal people to use computers especially not in their offices, their dens, or even in their kitchens.

„h Windows software dumps the typewriter analogy and updates the look of computers. Windows replaces the words and numbers with pictures and fun buttons and it is smooth and shiny, like an expensive new coffeemaker.

„h Windows Me is the most powerful personal computer version of Windows software and is software that has been updated many times since starting to breathe in January 1985. It is short for Windows Millennium, but Microsoft Labels it Ў§Windows Me.ЎЁ

„h Programmer types say Windows software is big enough and powerful enough to be called and operating system. That is because Windows Ў§operatesЎЁ your computer. Most computer users, however, call Windows lots of other names.

„h Windows 2000 is MicrosoftЎ¦s biggest and most powerful version of Windows. It is stronger and more full-featured than Windows Me. Windows 2000 is favored mostly by large office networks in order for all the computers can talk to each other. In fact, Microsoft eventually plans to discontinue its Windows Me line in favor of its Windows 2000 series.

„h Windows 2000 is not the replacement for Windows 98, even though its name sounds like it is the logical next step. No, what this means is Windows 2000 is the latest version of Windows NT, the corporate version of Windows used for networking. Windows Me is also known as Windows Millennium and is the replacement for Windows 98, even though the two names have nothing in common.

What Does Windows Do? Windows controls all the parts of your computer. You turn on your computer, start Windows, and start running your programs. Each program runs in its own little window on-screen, yet windows keep things safe, even if the programs start throwing darts at each other. Windows gets its name from all the cute little windows on-screen. Each window shows some information: a picture, perhaps, or a program that you are running. You can put several windows on-screen at the same time and jump from window to window, visiting different programs.

WINS is MicrosoftЎ¦s Window Internet Naming Server. A WINS server on your network registers NETBIOS names from other workstations and servers on your network and resolves them to IP addresses. WINS was supposed to be replaced in Windows 2000 by the Active Directory and its global catalog,