End to Win98 support may boost desktop Linux

Vikingod · Jul 12, 2006, 12:37 AM

Source: ZDNet
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Eight years after launching Windows 98, Microsoft will finally wash its hands of updating and plugging security gaps in its ageing operating system. The software giant originally planned to pull the plug in January 2004 but decided to extend support because of the increasing threat from Linux.

This time round, Microsoft is hoping that the remaining users of Windows 98 and Windows ME will upgrade to Windows XP, according to Peter Watson, chief security advisor, Microsoft Australia.

YAYitsAndrew · Jul 12, 2006, 12:18 PM

Oh yeah, the people who didn't jump from windows 98 to windows xp because of infrastructure compatibility issues are going to jump from windows 98 to linux to solve all their compatibility issues.

Sure.

cuke2u · Jul 12, 2006, 12:26 PM

Hi, most people who are running 98 would not have a clue how to install linux, if they did they probably would have migrated already. Until linux, and it compatriates, make it as simple as xp they'll be no mass exodus....
ChrisC

Jul 12, 2006, 12:37 AM	#1
Vikingod Int'l Fish Liaison Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: By the light of lamp I sit and type... Posts: 16,197 Rep Power: 112 System Specs	End to Win98 support may boost desktop Linux Source: ZDNet ___________ Eight years after launching Windows 98, Microsoft will finally wash its hands of updating and plugging security gaps in its ageing operating system. The software giant originally planned to pull the plug in January 2004 but decided to extend support because of the increasing threat from Linux. This time round, Microsoft is hoping that the remaining users of Windows 98 and Windows ME will upgrade to Windows XP, according to Peter Watson, chief security advisor, Microsoft Australia.

Jul 12, 2006, 12:18 PM	#2
YAYitsAndrew Anti-Piracy Poster Boy Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: NJ Posts: 2,605 Rep Power: 79 System Specs	Oh yeah, the people who didn't jump from windows 98 to windows xp because of infrastructure compatibility issues are going to jump from windows 98 to linux to solve all their compatibility issues. Sure. __________________ "It is because the resistance to paying for copyrighted material, although often characterized as arising from a supposed technical burden or principled concern for the public interest, arises rather from exactly the same segment of the brain that is dominant in shoplifters." - Mark Helprin, Digital Barbarism In other words, it's never okay to steal even if you think you have a good reason! www.yayitsandrew.com

Jul 12, 2006, 12:26 PM	#3
cuke2u DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 75 Rep Power: 0	Hi, most people who are running 98 would not have a clue how to install linux, if they did they probably would have migrated already. Until linux, and it compatriates, make it as simple as xp they'll be no mass exodus.... ChrisC