Microsoft Pulling Plug on Windows 98, 98 SE and ME

[Hardrock69]

Brandon Hill - April 18, 2006 3:24 PM

This is the last stop

For those of you still puttin' around on Windows 98 or Windows 98 SE, you'll be cut-off from Microsoft in July. If you're still running Windows Millennium, well I'm sorry to hear that.

Customers will no longer be provided with critical security updates after July 11, 2006. From Microsoft's Help and Support site:

Microsoft is ending support for these products because they are outdated and these older operating systems can expose customers to security risks. We recommend that customers who are still running Windows 98 or Windows Me upgrade to a newer, more secure Microsoft operating system, such as Windows XP, as soon as possible.

Although Microsoft is ending the release of updates for the aforementioned operating systems, online self-help support will still be available at from Microsoft's support site until at least July 11, 2007.

[FORD]

Anyone who is still using Windows ME is a damned fool anyway.

That piece of shit was the absolute worst excuse for an operating system ever released. And for MicroSquash, that's saying something. The first release of Windows 95 had less bugs than that piece of crap.

[Full Bug]

Thank god I have Window XP, I knew that would be a good choice in the long run.....

[Hardrock69]

I agree.

[twonabomber]

95 and 98 were almost enough to make me switch to Apple...but i stuck it out, and got XP Pro on the machine i built a few years ago. i haven't had much trouble with it at all.

[Ozzy Fudd]

Originally posted by twonabomber
95 and 98 were almost enough to make me switch to Apple...but i stuck it out, and got XP Pro on the machine i built a few years ago. i haven't had much trouble with it at all.

same here. always build your own.

[FORD]

Absolutely. The ability to choose your own hardware and build your own machine is what's kept me out of the Macintosh camp. And multimedia's the only thing that keeps me in the Windows camp. Once Linux gets that down, I'm out of Billy Gates Land for good.

[flappo]

in the not too distant future the mac will be the premier computing platform by diversity of os

xp , vista , linux AND os-x

whereas a pc will never run os-x legitimately

[FORD]

Originally posted by flappo
in the not too distant future the mac will be the premier computing platform by diversity of os

xp , vista , linux AND os-x

whereas a pc will never run os-x legitimately

Does Mac have any plans to expand the Intel-processor line into the full tower case systems like the G5 or the next generation (G6, I would guess)

Because if I could actually work with the hardware the way I wanted to, I might be willing to consider a MAC for my next machine and run it as a multi-boot system. But I hate these "everything built into the monitor" things, and the Mac Mini case isn't much better.

And actually, there are experimental packages out there already that will run OS-X on a PC, though they're in a very early Alpha stage. I'm not remotely interested, since OS-X is close enough to BSD anyway, it shares enough similarities with Linux.

[MERRYKISSMASS2U]

Good.


ME never should have been released.


This kind of "backwards compatibility 20 years back" style of thinking is one of the reasons their OSes are so bloated. Somebody with a set of balls just needs to cut support and move on.



For example: Classic apps no longer work on Mac OS X Intel machines. Nobody develops for it anymore. If Apple wants to continue being innovative, they need to cut support for the old shit, and spend their time on the new.


I really don't have a need to run 16 bit dos apps on a modern XP system. I'm glad Vista fucks up, and I welcome the next <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/index.html">big cat</a>.

[flappo]

Originally posted by FORD
Does Mac have any plans to expand the Intel-processor line into the full tower case systems like the G5 or the next generation (G6, I would guess)

Because if I could actually work with the hardware the way I wanted to, I might be willing to consider a MAC for my next machine and run it as a multi-boot system. But I hate these "everything built into the monitor" things, and the Mac Mini case isn't much better.

And actually, there are experimental packages out there already that will run OS-X on a PC, though they're in a very early Alpha stage. I'm not remotely interested, since OS-X is close enough to BSD anyway, it shares enough similarities with Linux.

you'd probably want one of these , then

http://www.apple.com/macpro/

"Quad Core. Up to 3GHz.
Every Mac Pro in the lineup features two of the newest Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors. Two dual-cores. One powerful quad workstation. And you get to decide how fast it flies: 2GHz, 2.66GHz, or 3GHz. And at 3GHz, the Mac Pro runs up to 2x faster than the Power Mac G5 Quad.(1)"

[Dr. Love]

http://tv.truenuff.com/mac/gaming.php

http://tv.truenuff.com/mac/portability.php

[flappo]

i love how pc users claim the mac is a toy

but then spend all that dough on a pc

to play games

nuff said

[flappo]

Originally posted by Dr. Love
http://tv.truenuff.com/mac/gaming.php

http://tv.truenuff.com/mac/portability.php

cheap clunky copies of a slick original

how 'very' pc

[MERRYKISSMASS2U]

Originally posted by flappo
i love how pc users claim the mac is a toy

but then spend all that dough on a pc

to play games

nuff said

Extremely insightful. I've really never thought of that before.


The "Macs can't play games" argument is bullshit. If I wanted to, I could run windows on the very machine that I'm typing on. However, I just don't fucking want to.