http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5164450.stm?dynamic_vote=ON#vote_5164450 Well, since it was meant to be 3 years ago, I would say fair enough, but 70 million users, that's alot of angry customers.
Up until recently, I thought that M$ had quit supporting Win98 until I read a similar article last week. I would think that most new viruses target Windows 2000 and XP instead of 9x. More people use them than the old DOSers (95, 98, and ME). I still have my 95, 98SE, and ME disks. I don't really use them anymore.
I retired my last ME rig last week (a work test machine) and replaced it with Windows 2000. This machine has 7 inkjet printers hanging off it and is used specifically to test cartridges I refill (guess my profession). What was a major surprise was a) how many patches it required to get 2000 up-to-date, and b) how much better USB support is under 2000 over ME (I used to fight communication errors particularly with Lexmark). Personally, I don't give a toss about them dropping support for the older operating systems (looks like 70M customers need to upgrade or fend support for themselves). I used to be a software developer and I would sunset (i.e. drop support) releases more than 2 generations old - it's just too damn hard to support and normally fixes for earlier bugs have been eradicated in the later builds. It used to annoy me no end that people would continue to hold on to old versions and complain about problems that were already fixed in a newer release.
hmm.. i've heard about it long long time ago, and they do it again well, i don't use any of those 98/ME for a quite a long time, but still have those disks though, like r3claim3r have no idea what to do with them but i remember, that those 98 was a pain in my head and nothing more.. so much problems and all, the only good thing about them was that they run really reaaly fast and don't eat up so many resources the Windows ME was the most unsuccesfull microsoft release (my opinion.. ), but i still tried them because they were new and i expected them to be great.. well, they woked on my old rig for some time..but later i threw them off and installed win 2k, was very happy with the stability of those and later, win xp shew up.. :dave: anyway, old products will always become obsolete in one day, so it's logical that microsoft is doing so they should focus on what's used now, and by the most people and who still uses those 98/ME (or even 95 ) should think about an upgrade
Windows 98 is still good for running very old games that are incompatible with Win2K or XP, for those who believe that there's no school like old school.
Microsoft's support for Windows 98 sucks. I was just reinstalling my dad's computer and when I went to go do a Windows Update, I got an error. I tried sending them a email using the link they had but it was an old account which had closed so the email couldn't be sent. HAHAH. I finally figured out that I needed IE6 instead of IE5 to install the updates. Since the support for 98 has just ended, I hope my dad will go out and upgrade to a better computer (he won't let me build one for him:flame.
This might pee of a few Windows XP SP1 and SP1a support ends on October 10, 2006 http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifean19
Yep. But there is Windows 98 Second Edition Service Pack 2.1a - non official http://exuberant.ms11.net/98sesp.html 17.4MB
