MS drops Win98, ME support
p2p news / p2pnet: If you’re a Windows 98 or Millenium Edition user, as of July 11 you’ll be out of luck if you’re looking for support from Bill and the Boyz.
On that date, an estimated 70 million users will be, “exposed to hackers,” observes Brian Kreb on his The Washington Post column, going on:
“In addition, security vendors are following Microsoft’s lead and phasing out support for the ageing Windows versions, leaving users open to new virus attacks …”
But, Krebbs says, “as a former Windows 98 (and ME) user, it would be hard to argue with the logic that support for the ageing platforms cannot continue into perpetuity. In fact, even in their heyday both Windows 98 and ME were widely criticised for their instability, bugginess and lax security.
“For many of us, who had to endure almost daily system crashes for no apparent reason, the arrival of Windows 2000 could not have come a minute too soon.”
Also See:
The Washington Post – Microsoft to End Support Of Old Windows Versions, July 1, 2006
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July 5th, 2006 at 3:59 am
On the other hand, some of us have found Win98 to be a “sweet spot”: functional without being overly bloated; secure enough without being too restrictive; and open enough, or at least reverse-engineered enough.
I’ll continue to use my Win98 until it can’t do something I want it to, and at that point I’ll remove the dual-boot on the computer and use only use /dev/hda2
–Bob.
July 5th, 2006 at 1:32 pm
Nightmare to install anything up to date, crashes like a pig, blue screen of death and generally sucks balls!
July 5th, 2006 at 1:34 pm
windows 98 was the worst of the windows versions , out of all the versions that is the one we as a company had to reinstall the most , xp is as solid as a rock and 3.1 lasted forever, glad to see the back of it
July 5th, 2006 at 4:21 pm
The truth is that Windows 98/ME were pieces of junk. Almost every OS released since 1994 kicks the living pats out of that piece of turd Win95/98/ME operating systems. Windows 2000/XP/2003 kicked the living sh!t out of the turd of an OS that Win98/ME were and still are. What I really wanted to see is more native Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 only applications the last four years. All software and hardware makers continuing to support those piece of turd Win98/ME operating systems the last four years has hurt performance, stability, and the overall quality of softwrae and hardware the last four years,
Windows 98/ME should have died a long time ago bewcause they flat out suck. Any Windows 9X based OS sucked big time compared to almost all others released since 1994.
WHile I’m no fan of Microsoft, I applaud them on this move. The sooner those piece of sh*t Windows 98/ME opertaing systems die, the better off the whole IT industry will be.