The Windows ME or Millennium Edition, was released to the public for home use on September 13, 2000 by Microsoft. It is a graphical OS developed by Microsoft as a part of its Windows 9x operating systems. It was touted as the successor to Windows 98 and was last DOS-based operating system released by Microsoft. It had updates and new softwares like the Internet Explorer 5.5, Windows Media Player 7 and Windows Movie Maker (a new software added to the package).