The whole point of RC is that the features are in and MS have deemed it stable enough to manufacture - but know they ought to give it a test run first. What you see in RC1 is what you get.
ME actually uses what is dubbed internally as MSDOS 8 (7 got scrapped in beta stage iirc)... just that ME went out of the way to hide all the DOS aspects - ie make it look like NT, except use the 9x kernel.
It's actually a good step up from 9x at a lower level, but there are some dodgy technologies tacked on that completely destabilises the entire OS to a point of it becoming unusable. Most of these technologies were refined and saw their way into XP. Vista offers a Linux/Mac-ish interface... there really is nothing else remarkable about it next to XP.
ME actually uses what is dubbed internally as MSDOS 8 (7 got scrapped in beta stage iirc)... just that ME went out of the way to hide all the DOS aspects - ie make it look like NT, except use the 9x kernel.
It's actually a good step up from 9x at a lower level, but there are some dodgy technologies tacked on that completely destabilises the entire OS to a point of it becoming unusable. Most of these technologies were refined and saw their way into XP. Vista offers a Linux/Mac-ish interface... there really is nothing else remarkable about it next to XP.