01-10-2004, 12:00 AM
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Editor Emeritus
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Windows 98 Support Ends Next Week
A brief public service announcement for those of you who run Windows 98: Upgrade as soon as you can. Microsoft will cease official support for Windows 98 by the end of next week -- there will be no guarantee of critical updates and you won't be able to call the company up for tech support. They will keep the Windows Update site up for some time longer, but may pull the plug on it soon as well.
"Six years after its launch, Windows 98 is still used by around a quarter of Web surfers. Microsoft announced last year that it would stop supporting Windows 98 beginning Jan. 15, meaning that million of users will soon be left exposed when new exploits and vulnerabilities are discovered."
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01-10-2004, 12:13 AM
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Mystic
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Send in the "exploits"... 0X
Seriously though, how many of these win98 users actually update their OS anyway?
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01-10-2004, 12:13 AM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Jul 2003
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It was great knowing you Windows 98SE! You were always one of my favorites...
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01-10-2004, 12:17 AM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
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According to http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];LifeWin it ended June 30, 2003 but WU was being kept up to date. No longer. WinME is going to hit this in Dec 2004, but ME isn't a real OS.
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01-10-2004, 12:37 AM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Feb 2002
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So 98SE is doomed too? When I read about this last year I thought it was for the older release, 98 only. Oh well, we'll live. I use AVG anyway, and keep it freshly updated all the time though I rarely go online with my PC (mostly to update the anti-virus, and a teensy bit for downloads my iPAQ refuses to do). I'll not be buying XP for my one PC, a sad old Acer notebook. Though I upgraded the RAM, it's just asking too much of a 600MHz notebook to run XP I think. It's hard enough running 98SE on that dog. More likely I'll eventually take the plunge and clear the thing out, run Linux of some stripe on it just to see what that's like. When there's time, anyway. No new PC is going to replace it either. I bought it to support my first PPC, and it's always bugged me that I had to have one to install some PPC software. That tether grows less and less significant, and with it the need for Windows Updates.
Speaking of which, why aren't there equivalent updates for the PPC I wonder? Sure, there's the odd EUU or SP, but those are very rare.
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01-10-2004, 01:27 AM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Oct 2002
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Droping WIN98 stinks. My oldest desktop is still a tried in true browser machine running 166 MMX processor with 32MB RAM. It's the 4th computer and the last resort in a household of five. But it works and I decided upgrading on the motherboard wasn't worth it long ago. I guess I may retire it sooner than I once thought. :cry:
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01-10-2004, 02:08 AM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Jan 2005
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Originally Posted by Gerard
I'll not be buying XP for my one PC, a sad old Acer notebook. Though I upgraded the RAM, it's just asking too much of a 600MHz notebook to run XP I think.
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No idea what the 'official' word on this is from MS, but my desktop is only a 733mHz PIII, and XP Pro runs like a champ on it. Of course, it does have 512mb of RAM. Runs Photoshop 7 just fine.
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01-10-2004, 02:13 AM
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Pontificator
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Well, that's nice. My Acer Travelmate notebook is a 600MHz PIII, with an upgraded 192MB of RAM. I may, perhaps, drop a bit of cash for another 256MB someday, but I'd rather not. Better spending money on PPC stuff. Somehow I'm thinking my notebook is a bit to old school to run XP.
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Gerard Ivan Samija
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01-10-2004, 02:37 AM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
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I can personally attest thatsa fresh install of XP on a 300MHz machine with 128MB of RAM is acceptable for most people. I wouldn't load photoshop on it, but Office runs just fine.
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01-10-2004, 02:57 AM
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Theorist
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 291
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Bye Win98 I don't ever want to see your sorry self any where near me ever again :evil:
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I can tell you at work we have a Pentium MMX 166 Laptop running Win2k with just 80mb RAM, and its slow but thats more the fault of the gfx drivers than anything.
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