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Microsoft will retire Windows 98 on January 16th

You realize that support means all software updates, right?

And if it's anything like Win95 you better download everything you need now because things like IE tend to disappear from their site.
 
Should be soon, I think they tried once and too many people cried that they weren't upgrading yet so MS extended it but I have no idea for how long. They have a roadmap somewhere on there site...
 
Just so you know, MS will keep the online self-help aviable for Windows 98 untill June 30, 2006.

I assume this means ALL online resources like patches and stuff, not just knowledge base articles. But I don't know that for a fact.

I don't know what they mean by "extended hotfix support". I think this is the pay for patches support. It says that you can buy a extended support contract within 90 days of end of mainstream support, which for win98 is LONG gone. That ends June 30.


Windows NT 4 Workstation is DEAD DEAD DEAD DEAD. It extended support died out on June 30 of last year.

Windows NT 4 server is still alive and kicking, sort of. The hotfix support died January 1st of this year. Pay-for-support ends in Jan 1 next year. And that's when they plan on dumping online support, too.

Also, mainstream support for Windows 2000 ends on march 31 of next year, if your curious. (edit: I mean w2k PRO)
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman
You realize that support means all software updates, right?

And if it's anything like Win95 you better download everything you need now because things like IE tend to disappear from their site.
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i dont use any MS updates ~ they screw up Win98 in a bad way.
as long as hardware makers still put out drivers, well be OK.

you can dload IE6SP1 to HD to burn it to CD ~ link
 
as long as hardware makers still put out drivers, well be OK.
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For an unsupported OS that requires an almost completely seperate code base from the currernt supported NT line? I know I'd stop as soon as MS said it wasn't supported any more.
 
Originally posted by: drag
Also, mainstream support for Windows 2000 ends on march 31 of next year, if your curious. (edit: I mean w2k PRO)
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since Win2K is so similar to XP, any new drivers that are released for XP should still work for 2K right?
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman
as long as hardware makers still put out drivers, well be OK.
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For an unsupported OS that requires an almost completely seperate code base from the currernt supported NT line? I know I'd stop as soon as MS said it wasn't supported any more.
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since winME and Win98 share its drivers, i dont think there will a problem til WinME is killed off.

🙂
 
That's sad, I wish they'd just say fuggit and kill them all of now. All the time and money spent on Win9X support could be better put on just about anything else.
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman
That's sad, I wish they'd just say fuggit and kill them all of now. All the time and money spent on Win9X support could be better put on just about anything else.
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LOL ~ you are a sick sick man 😉
i dont think theyve spent any manhours on win98 or winME in years anyways 😛
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman
the sick ones are the people who still run them...
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AMEN! My parents refuse to upgrade their (going on) 6 year old Sony VAIO past Windows 95!
I told them that I would not give them any more tech support until they upgrade to 2000!
 
I started out with NT4 99 was part of the beta testing of 2k 1999 and I remember the hassle with getting drivers for video capture cards to support for 2k 😀. I even emailed 3 diffrent Tv/video cards back then and they did send me beta drivers evry now and then that with some register editing worked 90% like the 98 driver....ofcourse today it's diffrent altogether NT5.1 is on top of the hill among all manufactors.

As far as 98 i have a friend who is into video editing, he chiefted to XP after hardware update 6months ago I built the rig a P4, he wanted Hyper Threading support (HT shines with video editing) so he was 'forced' to upgrade OS more or less..today he would never go back to 98.

Win 98 had probably been supported longer if they had released a HT patch for it.

-ntrights
 
HT as in hyperthreading?

That would require a substantial amount of work as it requires the operating system to support dual processors. 98 doesn't, which would require (most likely) a massive rewrite of the entire OS kernel trying to make it SMP safe.

That was never going to happen 🙂
 
MS will drop support for Win98, but they keep all rights/ownership of the product?????
If they drop support, we should be able to do anything we want with the product!!!!
Greg
 
Hold up, that shows XP Home & Pro being unavailable after Dec 31 2005; so Longhorn should be ready by then shirley?
[Edit] Didn't see the next column across that states 2006 😱
 
Originally posted by: petery83
Originally posted by: drag
Also, mainstream support for Windows 2000 ends on march 31 of next year, if your curious. (edit: I mean w2k PRO)
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since Win2K is so similar to XP, any new drivers that are released for XP should still work for 2K right?
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Since it doesnt look like anyone has addressed this I will. That is going to be correct *most* of the time, Windows 2000 and XP are very similar so device drivers are going to be interchangable 95+% (or should I say 98% 😉) of the time.

-Spy
 
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