Instruct: Classify a given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: The Essential Windows OS

Windows 98 Second Edition is as perfect a balance between stability and compatibility as Microsoft has so far achieved. The Milenium Edition (ME) Upgrade only curbed the compatibility a bit and slowed things down, and Windows 2000 is stable as a rock but lacks support for lots of software and hardware.Oddly enough, Windows 98 (the first edition) was the worst version of Windows in a long time, but Second Edition put things back in perspective quite nicely.