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Windows 98 Phased Out
Via_Patrino writes "According to Microsoft on january 16, MS Windows 98 and 98se will end Extended Support Phase, that means they'll became obsolete and assisted support will no longer be available from Microsoft, affecting about 27% of the internet users. That means even if 98 is working well for your needs (and especially computer specifications) and you want to pay for support (because that might cost less than switching hardware) you can't, because who will be able to patch eventual new bugs (security related or not) besides Microsoft? So if you're not planning a switch it might be your last opportunity to update MS Windows 98, after that some software might disappear from MS website (just like MSIE 5.5 for 95 did)."
Ok, the link for the word "switch" in that story is a link to Linux.
Give me a fucking break!!! That's not the only option.
I switched to OS X and have never been happier!
OS X... It's like Linux but better.
Don't mod me, bro'!!!!
>It will save you a lot of headaches. You, Sir, are the devil...
Hack your mind out of its sandbox.
For older hardware, this is not an option as winxp requires far more resources than win98.
Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam
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"Microsoft" and "support" don't belong in the same sentence together
nothing.can.stop.me.now
98SE was not bad at all. It was definitely the best of the 9x kernel versions.
Pop Up Mini-Tarts was not bad at all. It was definatly the best of the midget-porn videos out there.
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
The point of /. is to provide news. Discussion is secondary. For those of us running Windows 98 who didn't know it would be phased out, this is useful information (far more so than, say, SCO story #694).
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
2 points:
1) Unfortunately, with the large number of soon-to-be-unsupported 98 boxes out there, just waiting to be compromised & going unpatched, it's not just MSFT screwing customers of 98, they're hurting everyone.
2) Redhat is completely getting out of the market segment; MSFT has shown no signs of bailing from the desktop OS market.
my sig's at the bottom of the page.
"The point of /. is to provide news. Discussion is secondary. For those of us running Windows 98 who didn't know it would be phased out, this is useful information (far more so than, say, SCO story #694)."
So they post a link telling you to switch to Linux ?
Face it, this isn't news, it's a pitchfork sharpening party .
"Derp de derp."
"Face it, this isn't news, it's a pitchfork sharpening party ."
This isn't a -1 Troll. It's a pretty good description of the point of this flamebait article. Insightful? Funny? Sure. Flamebait or Troll? Nah. Perhaps if the story was written with more facts and less editorial, then I'd agree with this moderation.
Phased out to MS seems to mean that it is stable and now they want to move on to less stable Operating systems. -Dave http://www.whitehatsystems.com/