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Retired Microsoft Operating Systems Still Popular

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the better-the-enemy-that-one-knows dept.

Decaffeinated Jedi writes "Despite Microsoft's recent retirement of Windows 98, News.com reports that many users continue to cling to the company's older operating systems. The study cited in the article suggests that 80 percent of companies still have machines operating on Windows 95 or 98. While Windows 2000 was the most common OS in the study, just 6.6 percent of the desktop machines included in the survey were running Windows XP." The results aren't too surprising. I get a lot of user mail from Netscape 4 users, and it only makes sense that they're running it somewhere.

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  1. Re:Companies are better off than schools. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, Apples have traditionally been used in the study of gravity, dating back to Newton's time. It only makes sense they are used in a physics class.

  2. Users exist in spacetime by base_chakra · · Score: 4, Funny

    it only makes sense that they're running it somewhere.

    Well observed, CowboyNeal. ;)

  3. Re:Companies are better off than schools. by bitflip · · Score: 5, Funny

    The apple ][gs from 1986 is capable of doing everything the average person does with their pc

    Yeah, but it takes six months to rip a CD.

  4. Re:Windows 98 by Bombcar · · Score: 4, Funny

    And I would like to disrespectivly agree with you. No reason, really. But so much politeness on Slashdot is unnerving.

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