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Creaky Operating Systems Form IT Foundations

Posted by Zonk on from the *shudder* dept.

maotx writes "The Washington Post has an article on how aging operating systems are still widely used. The article states that "The research firm IDC estimates that of the roughly 514 million paid-for copies of Windows on desktops and laptops worldwide at the end of 2004, almost 21 percent were the aging Win 95, 98 and Millennium Edition releases." That equates to around 108 million copies being used."

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  1. I used NT 4.0 for a long time because by Anonymous+Cowdog · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I used NT 4.0 forever because it just had such a workmanlike user interface.

    Actually, ObOnTopic, the most interesting thing to me about this topic is how easily Microsoft killed NT 4.0 by simply witholding support for USB. NT4 actually was, ah, very workable, if not workmanlike, except for that crucial missing USB connectivity in the later years.