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We can all agree that ME was a complete clusterfuck, though. "What if your desktop was also a Webpage and what if it crashed about every hour?"
I think it was every N cpu cycles it bluescreened.. So on a 233mhz you might get 8h.. 1.4ghz yes every hour..
ME is when I switched to Linux just sometimes I also have a windows machine.. Like the win10 gaming laptop that is really end of life.. (If you don't want gaming sure it could be fine on Linux but it's wasn't intended to live this long so a good gaming machine before the year of win10 extended support ends is likely in my future.. And will likely run Linux)
Active Desktop. That actually started with Windows 98, or at least that's when it came bundled with. You had to install it on purpose on Windows 95 and NT4.
You could do some interesting tricks with this if you wrote your own local content for it. Different wallpaper images on different monitors, interactive wallpaper effects, and so forth. I have no idea what its actual intended use case was nor what anyone at Microsoft was smoking when they made this available by default. Parking anything on there that accessed external web content always struck me as rather a bad idea.