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| Thread ID: 70660 | 2006-07-11 10:42:00 | It's Official! Windows 98 No Longer Supported. | bob_doe_nz (92) | PC World Chat |
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| 470109 | 2006-07-12 01:40:00 | It was a comment made of what the average Joe on the street would think. Which would make perfect sense. I was listening to a podcast the other day and they were saying that sales of home computers has dropped and this is being blamed on the vista launch delay All the Lemmings waiting to part with their money?? |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 470110 | 2006-07-12 03:21:00 | Seriously... Who here has actually ever rung MS for '98 support?! I dont know ANYBODY who has! None that I know of either but it's more the support in the way of security patches and updates that will be missed, not telephone support. |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 470111 | 2006-07-12 03:49:00 | 98se Didn't need the support, that the poor sods with XP did. :) | Peter H (220) | ||
| 470112 | 2006-07-12 03:58:00 | If win 98 still needs more security patches it's time it was dumped anyway. It's obsolete. Do you still expect support for DOS too? |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 470113 | 2006-07-12 04:36:00 | I didn't get a chance to play with Windows 98, toyed with 95 in my [very] young years........... but 98 rocks!! | zahmad (8963) | ||
| 470114 | 2006-07-12 04:37:00 | 70 million users can't all be wrong, Jack. Why should they buy new computers, just to increase Micrsoft's profits? After all, their computers work. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 470115 | 2006-07-12 09:45:00 | I've got five PC's - some of them pre-historic dungers and they all run XP pretty well. I'm not sure what the objection to XP is because it is the best Windows operating system by a mile in my experience. Now linux distributions might be an interesting contest - can't decide on that one although how anyone could live without Knoppix at hand is beyond me. | Twelvevolts (5457) | ||
| 470116 | 2006-07-12 09:53:00 | I'm not sure what the objection to XP is Its not so much an objection, its more that if Win 98 does everything you want it to do, why go out and spend good money on a new OS and possibly a new pc. You will find alot of software supports win 98 and even Win 95 (my Avg runs quite happily on Win 95). Its also the marketing pressure to go out and buy the latest and the greatest. Most people don't need the latest and the greatest. |
dolby digital (5073) | ||
| 470117 | 2006-07-12 10:35:00 | Its not so much an objection, its more that if Win 98 does everything you want it to do, why go out and spend good money on a new OS and possibly a new pc . You will find alot of software supports win 98 and even Win 95 (my Avg runs quite happily on Win 95) . Its also the marketing pressure to go out and buy the latest and the greatest . Most people don't need the latest and the greatest . Bought mine for $150 which wasn't too bad, and after all it's been out for something like five years (?) And my main computer is four years old and apart from a DVD burner ($120) and a bigger hard drive ($160), it is pretty much as I bought it . But I appreciate not everyone spends their life on their computer like me but I certainly don't have money to burn . |
Twelvevolts (5457) | ||
| 470118 | 2006-07-12 11:10:00 | I've got five PC's - some of them pre-historic dungers and they all run XP pretty well. I'm not sure what the objection to XP is because it is the best Windows operating system by a mile in my experience. Now linux distributions might be an interesting contest - can't decide on that one although how anyone could live without Knoppix at hand is beyond me. So do you have 5 seperate copies of xp or run it on one machine at a time or do the obvious :D |
plod (107) | ||
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