i read an announcement today that microsoft is going to stop supporting win98 completely after the 15th. how many of you are running this operating system [now that you finally got it running halfway decent]. i use win98 as well as mac os9+. am used to the quirks or have learned to work around them. and dont really care to move to XP, X, or any other software. and cant see why i should have to. i have read about the new host of problems xp has and am sure it will be a good system someday:laugh: but i dont want to divvy up cash for an os that will be obsolete just as fast as win98 is now ou: heck, i just got rid of a machine that was running windows 3.1 with a few games on it i liked. i have all the disks for several different versions of dos, 3.0, 3.1, 3.11, win95, win98, linex, and mac OS, when will the madness end?<IMG SRC="http://leichte.info/Smiley_Archiv/Smileys/tocktock3.gif">
I use 98 SE at work, and don't care for it. I HATED it when I had it at home. I have had XP here at home for about 1 1/2 years, and love it. I've had no problems with it whatsoever.
XP Pro on my machine and I like it, very stable, much better than 98. And realize that I used to be an apple fanatic, mac or nothing, person until I broke down and built my own pc (had to for school work). My poor mac hasn't even been turned on in months.
Well, as time goes on and they have newer versions, they will have to stop support for the older ones - though it would be nice to support them a bit longer. Also, many people just get the newest thing (not restricted to computers) simply because its new, and with the problems Windows has, you want everyone fixing on the newer stuff. Since the announcement about Windows 98 support discontinuing, we've spent the last month upgrading the 98 machines we have left to 2000 at work. I've been through Windows 95, 98SE. Dabbled with 3.1 and ME. I don't care for XP. I like 2000 very much. Personally, at the moment, I'm using Windows 2000, Knoppix Linux and Mandrake Linux. I'll soon be learning PicoBSD for a router, and hope to resurrect (don't want to go the emulation route) my old Atari 800 computer to some useful purpose (like games).
Still in a time warp here at home.... Windows 98 Plus with dial up modem! Have the good stuff at work but work dictates schedule not conducive to surfing my fav sites!
I'll tell you what, as a tech, I much prefer networking 98 over XP. And there are a lot of other things in XP that Microsoft assumes you are stupid about and wants to "do it for you". Which I hate. 98 has a lot of networking and printing setups where you manually configure things just as they should be. XP is very clandestine with those operations. Troubleshooting networking and printing in XP is a pain. And I HATE that XP has replaced WINIPCFG with a dos equivalent that as of yet I am unable to figure out how to release and renew IP Addresses! oy.ou:
Win 2000 Pro here.... won't change until someone tells me I can't run any programs on it anymore.....kinda like Win95 Win98 rules as far as making a slow computer run at a decent pace. It's easy to work on too.
Mac OS9 I'm a Mac guy. Simply because it's all I've ever been exposed to. It's just worked out that way. When I do need to use a Windows based machine I get frustrated because it sometimes seems you have to jump through a lot of hoops to accomplish even a simple task. Not as intuitive an operating system as a Mac. But, I'm learning.
I use 4 computers on a regular basis. 2 at work and 2 at home. 3 are WIN XP and 1 is WIN 98SE 6 months ago I would have said WIN98 rules.... but after getting used to WINXP, I feel it is far superior. I just upgraded my main work PC to WINXP (from 98SE) about a month ago. I can't believe how much faster it is. Make the switch to XP. You won't regret it. You'll feel lost for a week or two because the interface is so different. And there's a few things that seem odd or out of place, but after you get over that, you'll have a much more effecient PC.
I use Windows 98 SE on both of my shop PC's and it has been crash free for 4 years..... sitting running all day long. Must be a miracle or something! I also have 98SE on my old 90 Mhz Toshiba laptop that I still use once in a whhile to surf the net when the kids are busy on the desktop at home. The home unit is running on Xp Home Edition...... it seemed much faster than the pro version with alot less overhead. XP is a pain sometimes to diagnose networks problems, but I love it! Mike
kinda like all those AOL disks that for some reason i haven't thrown out a long time ago [remember when it came on a floppy?] i am stuck with all these now-archaic OSs. nothing really wrong with them as far as operating systems go. but the fancy stuff people want to run, be it the latest office apps or the coolest games [and all the toys that go with them] will only work on the latest-and fastest-OS. thats progress ou:
OS received an email from pcworld that ms will continue to support windows 98 into 2005 . at work i use windows 2000 pro & at home windows 95 .
Re: OS Confirmed via Yahoo news here I once "upgraded" from Windows 98 to ME, only to discover that ME was rubbish. I quickly went back to 98. But now I've had XP for about 18 months and have had zero problems!
Running Mac OS X.3 at home and work, gotta say it's frikken amazing. Running XP on my laptop. Seems to run a bit slow though... I suppose I should turn off all of XP's bells and whistles to get it to run faster... :error:
98 SE. I figure if I can I'm going to milk my K6-2 processor and 98-SE until the next "upgrade" OS from MS comes out, or IBM goes Linux and gives the orphan legitimacy in the PC world.
windows xp professinal, love it great operating system, finds all your drivers so you don't have to put them in, installing programs is much eaiser, also i have windows 98 se as my second operating system, never know when you may have troubles, nice to have a backup
