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Microsoft Retires Windows 98
prostoalex writes "Complying with the court requirement related to Sun-Microsoft lawsuit over Java, Microsoft is retiring Windows 98, SQL Server 7, Office XP Developer Edition and some other products."
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like there's any question about what dean means. More time dealing with the middle east and not just bombing the shit out of iraq. most of the time when I read GWB's inane quotes I can't figure out what the context is, let alone what the hell the man is saying.
Bah!!!!
If you literally had to spend weeks getting XP configured you really don't know what you're doing.
It took me about 15 minutes to get XP pro setup the way I wanted.
In my opinion, the only thing 98SE can do that XP can't is run on lower end hardware. Also XP home had stupid "simple" networking built in.
The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. - Benjamin Franklin
Er, Windows 98SE is still the defacto gaming OS?
I know of nobody that uses 98 anymore. Nor anyone that has for a couple of years, many of them gamers.
get with the times, man!
~/ssh slashdot.org ssh: connect to host slashdot.org port 22: too many beers
Sorry if you were to incompetent to manage the same.
Slashbots love to say there is "spyware" in Windows XP and yet never mention it.
Please state a *single* example of spyware existing in Windows XP.
Also, XP doesn't tell me or anybody else what to do at all. Wow, it pops some informative things up the first time you run it. That sure is controlling...
"Sufferin' succotash."