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Win95 Lifecycle Draws to a Close

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the b'bai dept.

Mr_Perl writes "As many Everquest players discovered recently directx 8.1 is not being made for Windows 95, sending stores everywhere into a frenzy to slap little stickers over the words "Windows 95" on game box system requirements sections. Microsoft has picked November 30th, 2001 as the date that Win95 moves into the unsupported phase of it's career, making it even more useless to those who still keep it around for playing the latest games. Looks like Win98 is slated for execution June 30, 2003."

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  1. Re:Hummm... by Sharkyfour · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Figures someone else submits it 2 seconds before I do... damn.

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  2. Re:If they do that... by cgleba · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    http://www.98lite.com 98lite basically strips the crap out of 98 and makes it nice and simple like 95

  3. Moderation gone mad by Mike+Connell · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Flamebait? Can somebody explain to me what has happened to /. ?

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  4. Re:Bill Gates should make a good product, not sque by zoward · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    I've got an annoying registry corruption on my Win98SE box. Apparently somehwere in the registry is recorded that I have a certain Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime DLL that is either corrupted or gone. The error message won't tell me which one (there are several versions; newer versions of MSVC++ come with new sets of runtime libraries, which get distributed with applications written in MSVC++). This has broken a half dozen major applications on my box. Reinstalling one or more of the apps won't help; the system thinks the DLL is there, so it won't reload it when reinstalling an app that needs it. Anyone know where in the reigstry one would look to correct this? Sort of that, I'll need to reload the partition.

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  5. Re:Support can't last forever by TheReverand · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Personally I don't want to run an OS that I installed in 1994. I have bought a couple new computers since then, and I prefer to have more advanced features and stability, which is why I run win2K.

    Quit your crying and go download a warez version of 98SE.

    Hey, why won't this firewire harddrive work under macOS6.4?

    Oh, and fuck the slashdot lameness filter, compression filter, goatse filter, URL filter, and IP tracker software.

  6. Re:Support can't last forever by TheReverand · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Keep modding me down, I have more karma than you can possibly imagine.

    Besides, with my new view settings, "Troll" gets an automatic +5.

  7. Re:Support can't last forever by laserjet · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Actually, you couldn't have more karma that one could possibly imagine. There is a karma cap.

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  8. Re:Support can't last forever by TheReverand · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Actually, some of us had a lot of karma before the cap, and it didn't just magically disappear.