98 and Me - execution day - 70 million users have to upgrade

As far as I can see, there's going to be no support, but that doesnt mean users have to stop using it... does it?

SOFTWARE giant Microsoft has named the day that Windows 98 and Millennium users will no longer have support.

On July 11, the two operating systems will have their final breakfast before being wiped from Vole's support brain. Although many expected Microsoft to stop supporting the quaintly antique software, the date for liquidation was uncertain.

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I would bet a good portion of those running these operating systems at home dont update it anyway however the business secotr made them delay this cut off before maybe they will again

For me, 98se was the best OS before XP... it ran beautifuly

[basa]

I used 98SE exclusively up until about 6 months ago. It ran well but I have to admit not as well as XP Home.

Whilst support for it runs out soon, as the article says I reckon it will not be the target of viruses or hacks unless those virii / hacks built for XP just happen to execute on 98 by chance.

I stopped using it because just too many new progs and apps aren't written for it nowadays.

Shame 'cos I liked it and it was FREE !!

[Millay]

R.I.P No flowers

[Jules]

So how will this effect me as I run on ME do I need to get XP?

[Chris W]

There is no need to upgrade- it just means that MS don't offer any support for these OS's any more.

My parents still use win 95 which has been out of support for a long time. Just because it isn't supported, doesn't mean it won't work.

[Jules]

Ok thanks Chris

[Halcyon]

At home I run a PC with XP Pro and one with 98SE and apart from a few extra features in XP Pro, Win98 has performed fine and I will keep it on one of my machines.

[Skatoony]

Yes ok Microsoft, users with a PC that is designed for Windows 98 (so something like a P2 @ 250MHZ with 32MB RAM) are going to have to upgrade to XP. Is M$ going to pay for the hardware upgrade? I don't think so.

[Graham M]

Er... Noones forcing users to Upgrade, MS just wont support the O/S anymore which imo is fair enough, it IS nearing 10 years old ofc.

[Skatoony]

Originally Posted by Zeph

Er... Noones forcing users to Upgrade, MS just wont support the O/S anymore which imo is fair enough, it IS nearing 10 years old ofc.

Not forcing, but advising:

Ullrich said he would advise users of those systems to either upgrade to a newer version of Windows such as Windows XP, or consider switching to a Mac.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...063001587.html

Second paragraph from the bottom, last line.

[Dan_Sette]

I still run Windows 98se. Works fine on the laptop I use at home. Although I have said that when I change laptop later in the year it will be to an Apple.

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[gazzae]

Originally Posted by Electrolyte

Not forcing, but advising:


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...063001587.html

Second paragraph from the bottom, last line.

That guy doesn't work for Microsoft.

[greencreeper]

I'm on Windows 98 SE. At work I support everything from a WYSE terminal on up through Windows NT to Windows Server 2003. Windows 98 will live on at least another decade yet.