Re: [LUG] (Another rant) [Fwd: Microsoft shuts down Windows 98]

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Theo Zourzouvillys wrote:

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> If you do continue using win 98, then do not connect to the internet (for all
> of our sanity), or expect application upgrades to continue working for much
> longer.  If you do continue using it, every time you get a piece of spam,
> then remember: people whole followed this advice are one of the reasons you
> are getting that piece of spam in the first place.  If you suffer from
> credit/debit card fraud, then remember: the advice to continue using windows
> 98 was almost certainly the reason (or your lack of common sense).

To some extent it can depend if a piece of malware is old or new. In
some ways malware is just another piece of software. Just as an
application written for Windows XP may refuse to run the same thing can
happen with malware.

> I stopped supporting windows 98 as a target platform the moment Microsoft
> EOL'ed it.  And it could not have come sooner.  The crap TCP/IP API, lack of
> Services, crap USB implementation, crap thread implementation, and numerous
> other things wrong with this absolutely awful OS (from a developers point of
> view) made it one of the happiest days of my life to remove Windows 98 + ME
> from my supported OS list.

I'm not sure it's fair (to Windows 98) to put it in the same catagory of
Windows "Many Errors". ME appears to have been all the worst bits of 98
and 2000 stuck together with cheap gaffa tape.

I concur. Windows 98 was a relatively solid and dependable end-user program, and I used it for far longer than any other operating system.