What do you mean, I used WinME for 5 years without any problems, and certainly never had to worry about authorization and it locking me out if it doesn't like upgrades I make like I have with XP!!!!
You just have to know how to work the program. On the otherhand had MORE problems with 2000 and getting things to run on it than I ever did on WinME, or even Win95 when Win95 was OUTDATED!!!
WinXP, no it's not normal, either that or I am just hard on the OS...it has problems constantly, I crash it about once a day with a program freezing it up, and then after it either does a reboot of the OS, or I manage to get the taskmanager opened and shut down the entire process except for the OS, it then asks if I want to send a message to Microsoft, which of course never get's any feedback to me anyways...
Nice joke Karnage...you must not be taxing it enough...