The biggest flaw of ME, being based on the old Win '98/'95 core, was that the OS itself had no mechanism for protecting itself or its drivers from user-mode code. If any application failed or went rogue, it could inadvertently (or intentionally) take down the entire OS, read or corrupt other applications, or any other number of things.
The NT kernel has protected system processes and memory that at least attempt to prevent that kind of stuff from happening.
The biggest flaw of ME, being based on the old Win '98/'95 core, was that the OS itself had no mechanism for protecting itself or its drivers from user-mode code. If any application failed or went rogue, it could inadvertently (or intentionally) take down the entire OS, read or corrupt other applications, or any other number of things.
The NT kernel has protected system processes and memory that at least attempt to prevent that kind of stuff from happening.