Just when you´re getting used to the idea that Windows ME really is the last of the Win9x line of operating systems, you get a hint that maybe it´s not, after all. Once upon a time Win98 was officially the last of the Win9x line, but since then Microsoft has put out two more upgrades, Win98 SE last year and now Windows ME - the latter is almost certainly definitely the last, but if it is, what´s Tiger?

The Register has received information that bugs logged from the ME development programme have been sent to a mysterious new project, codenamed Tiger. Although we can´t as yet confirm the truth of this, the information is claimed to have come from Microsoft developers who worked on Windows ME.

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