It was Microsoft's main operating system for home users until the introduction of its successor Windows XP in October 2001.
It is the successor to Windows 98, and was released to manufacturing on June 19, 2000, and then to retail on September 14, 2000. It was officially codenamed as Millennium. Windows Millennium Edition, or Windows Me (marketed with the pronunciation of the pronoun 'me'), often capitalized as Windows ME, is an operating system developed by Microsoft as part of its Windows 9x family of Microsoft Windows operating systems. Mainstream support ended on December 31, 2003 Microsoft Windows Me – Home at the Wayback Machine (archived September 2, 2000) Windows Me desktop, including taskbar and shortcuts
