Support for Windows 98/ME Ends

Monkey Hanger · 07-11-2006, 02:44 PM

Ah well, it had to happen!

Protoplasm72 · 07-11-2006, 09:12 PM

I thought they already stopped supporting it

yamawho · 07-11-2006, 09:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Protoplasm72

I thought they already stopped supporting it

Same here ...

Is there a site which has all the updates thus far ?

*polonyc2* · 07-11-2006, 09:20 PM

the bigger news is that Microsoft will be discontinuing support for Windows XP Service Pack 1 in October 2006...

surfandcross · 07-12-2006, 11:17 PM

Finally time to move on......... RIP, where I use to work they also extended the support too (about 2 years ago), d%$m it nothing but trouble on a domain environment , vpn, antivirus, etc...IMO

John64 · 07-12-2006, 11:53 PM

In my opinion, 98SE is by todays standards, an old and bad os. It doesnt support most of the newer games that are out, and hasnt supported Office 2003 (maybe even 2002, but i might be wrong there) ever. I can see why MS is killing it, it is 9 years old! In the car world, that would be like Ford supporting the Model T!

If someone is still using a Pentium 2 or earlier, they ought to think about using a new os for security purposes, let alone speed improvements. Since MS is a private company, they can kill their products whenever they want, and i personally support this. If you wonder why i didnt mention ME, its because that is the worst excuse for an OS i have ever used. I had it for about 2 weeks but it would blue screen on the most simple things and also was incredible slow. A P3 that is capable of running a pretty basic installation of Windows 2000 or Windows XP is under $100 around here, used. That is not that much when you consider that you can actually make use of the computer!

guiness · 07-13-2006, 01:11 AM

We All Live In A Yellow Submarine!!!

JMerrick · 07-13-2006, 03:59 AM

I run an old OS for older games etc. You don't need to keep security up to date unless you go online with it.

Monkey Hanger · 07-13-2006, 04:36 AM

We still run one box on 98se. It is my ole CUSL2 - P3 800eb and 512Mb Crucial!
It's perfectly adequate for running my wifes business on - Accounts and Word Processing. We don't need the latest and fastest, nor do we need XP for that. 98se, Sage Accounts and Office 97 is good enough.
It all sits behind a hardware and software firewall and Avast antivirus. Acronis backs everything up daily to a slave USB drive on my XP Pro box.
When something breaks, as it will eventually, then we shall have to go to a new machine and XP (or whatever it is at the time). Until then we will keep this trusty servant running.

bajo · 08-27-2007, 02:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Monkey Hanger

We still run one box on 98se. It is my ole CUSL2 - P3 800eb and 512Mb Crucial!
It's perfectly adequate for running my wifes business on - Accounts and Word Processing. We don't need the latest and fastest, nor do we need XP for that. 98se, Sage Accounts and Office 97 is good enough.
It all sits behind a hardware and software firewall and Avast antivirus. Acronis backs everything up daily to a slave USB drive on my XP Pro box.
When something breaks, as it will eventually, then we shall have to go to a new machine and XP (or whatever it is at the time). Until then we will keep this trusty servant running.

allright mh .. stick it to the man !

S.SubZero · 08-27-2007, 08:27 AM

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Originally Posted by bajo

allright mh .. stick it to the man !

Stick it to the 13-month old posts?

bajo · 08-27-2007, 07:34 PM

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Originally Posted by S.SubZero

Stick it to the 13-month old posts?

Yup, it's always the same story, no matter the date, and his system is an all times classic in my book as well.

traveler · 08-27-2007, 09:01 PM

How come I haven't posted in this thread?

bajo · 08-27-2007, 09:08 PM

exactly.. now you're talking trav !!

traveler · 08-27-2007, 10:00 PM

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Originally Posted by bajo

exactly.. now you're talking trav !!

long live win98se

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John64 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 4,449	In my opinion, 98SE is by todays standards, an old and bad os. It doesnt support most of the newer games that are out, and hasnt supported Office 2003 (maybe even 2002, but i might be wrong there) ever. I can see why MS is killing it, it is 9 years old! In the car world, that would be like Ford supporting the Model T! If someone is still using a Pentium 2 or earlier, they ought to think about using a new os for security purposes, let alone speed improvements. Since MS is a private company, they can kill their products whenever they want, and i personally support this. If you wonder why i didnt mention ME, its because that is the worst excuse for an OS i have ever used. I had it for about 2 weeks but it would blue screen on the most simple things and also was incredible slow. A P3 that is capable of running a pretty basic installation of Windows 2000 or Windows XP is under $100 around here, used. That is not that much when you consider that you can actually make use of the computer! __________________
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