Microsoft Extends Win98/SE Support 415
An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet reports that Microsoft is extending technical support for Windows 98 till 30 June 2006, despite being days away from switching support to a CD. It seems Windows 98 will also have all necessary security updates till the new expiry date." The article states that Microsoft will have "...During that time paid over-the-phone support will be available, and "critical" security issues will be reviewed and "appropriate steps" taken."
Error in ZDNet article. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Shame Red Hat didn't do the same! (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Sadly Enough (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Sadly Enough (Score:5, Informative)
I ran 98SE for *years* before switching to Linux, and for John Q. Homeuser who has AOL and doesn't use the internet for anything more than checking local movie start times and ordering flowers for his wife's birthday, it's enough.
Re:Sadly Enough (Score:3, Informative)
XP is also an OS which is securable. 9x is not. Where I work this is a big issue, since we get audited twice a year.
The license for XP may be more, but with upward of 10k users we have a volume license which gets renewed every couple of years anyway, and the CALs for desktop machines all cost the same for us.
Re:Heh (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Jumping to Linux. (Score:2, Informative)
Now, maybe you have some funky hardware, but in terms of CPU and RAM, you can run XP on what you've got.