Hi Jerry,
You've been reading too many M$ 'white papers'. How long has
Never read one, are they good?
Win95 been out? M$ announced they will no sell or longer support it.
True. But you don't have to upgrade if you don't want to. BTW, I think you can even still buy Win95 if you are a business.
Or was that Win98?
Not yet - even BestBuy still sells Win98, and Dell still offers it as the OEM OS installed on systems.
That means no one is going to write new software for it or maintain existing software for it. Win95 users are now frozen in time. They are on their own little island. They will NOT be able to add a patch to make the USB more functional, if at all. They won't be able to use the newest
Granted. But, if they were using Win95, most likely they don't use USB on that computer. Their next computer will come with USB and WinME or 2k.
and latest features. Their version of Word won't be able to read *.doc files written by the W2K version of Word, so if they are in business and ther customers and sources start sending them W2K docs and email,
True. Although, I have Word 2k configured to save in 97 format... (although I mainly work in WP format).
etc., they won't be able to read them. Then there was Win98, quickly followed by the bug fix Win98SE, followed by WinME, Win2K and the
Win98SE cost $20 to upgrade to for 98 users, Me was simply $49.
recently announced vaporware, Whistler! When do you think support for Win98 will be dropped, especially if sales of W2K continue moribund.
Maybe.
If your computer is only a hobby it probably doesn't matter. If you are feeding your family then it will matter. (Seeing how you said you just upgraded from Win98 FE, you trully are a hobbiest user.) It's
No I am not. I simply had no reason to (until my Win98 installation bought the farm). When I do all of my real work by e-mail or in a text editor uploading to a Linux server, why waist the money? I don't need to! Exactly the same reason why MS can't get Win2k to sell well.
Those other OSs? Win95 and Win98. Truely amazing! Bill Gates has been denying for years that there were any bugs in his software or that they were unstable. Now he's attacking his own software to sell W2K !!!
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