Retired Microsoft Operating Systems Still Popular

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday December 13, 2003 @02:21AM 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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Re:Companies are better off than schools. by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-13 02:45 · 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.
Re:Companies are better off than schools. by bitflip · 2003-12-13 03:36 · 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.