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Retired Microsoft Operating Systems Still Popular
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.
That's Amazing Man!!!!
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They are not old! They are Beatifulll old macs!!
Just take the devil out of them and install NetBSD.
BTW: If you think that Public Schools inside the USA are 'poor', please came check out what 100 years of USA economical domination through the FMI did to shcools in my country. We are not complaining about old computers, because there are none, and in many places the principal issue is to give the kids something to eat
WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?
Nothing other than satisfy the immature need to have a newer toy.
--Mike--
Ok, so now Win98 is retired, i.e. not available from its maker, Microsoft. Soon, the second-hand market for Windows licenses will die out.
Once there are no licenses available anymore, and since Microsoft doesn't care anymore either (they've abandoned the OS), why shouldn't it be possible to copy and download it freely?
I mean, I realize Win98 is still under copyright from M$ and isn't public domain, but given that they don't make money out of it and they don't support it, it's as good as abandonware, no?
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
I wanted a < but I forgot that slashdot is retarded and can't figure out that a lone < is probably not an HTML tag...
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Tom
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