Still in use ?

Jon-NC · 3rd November 2006

We have a few clients who still have to use 98 as they use specialist software that won't run on XP.

JonWitte · 3rd November 2006

Where's the 3.0/WFWG sub topic?

Hypermediocrity · 3rd November 2006

One of my contract clients has about 13 Win95 machines, 4 Win98 SE, and a couple of ME :/

Row · 4th November 2006

Does anyone still use Windows 95-ME ?

Schumie · 4th November 2006

I know someone still using Windows 98 (altho I think it is SE at least :P)

ukgaz · 4th November 2006

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Originally Posted by Hypermediocrity

One of my contract clients has about 13 Win95 machines, 4 Win98 SE, and a couple of ME :/

ME! oh dear

(im sure it was meant to be called muppet edition not millenium)

Brent · 6th November 2006

The problem is that Microsoft ( in their infinite wisdom ) have decided not to support 95 / 98 any more. So all new security patches will not be available, exposing users to potentially harmful attacks.
IMHO this is wrong, as you rightly say - some users can not upgrade to XP due to application software performance.

I only upgraded my home computer to XP because I was using the internet more and found out that I was exposed to these attacks - other than that I would have chosen to upgrade as I don't see any benefit with XP over 98

monaghan · 6th November 2006

I have don't have any clients still on old versions.

I do have friends & family on 95 & 98 who refuse to upgrade due to the cost of buying a new machine as well as a new Windows license. It's these ones that cause the most support headaches

Jon-NC · 6th November 2006

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Originally Posted by Brent

The problem is that Microsoft ( in their infinite wisdom ) have decided not to support 95 / 98 any more. So all new security patches will not be available, exposing users to potentially harmful attacks.
IMHO this is wrong, as you rightly say - some users can not upgrade to XP due to application software performance.

I only upgraded my home computer to XP because I was using the internet more and found out that I was exposed to these attacks - other than that I would have chosen to upgrade as I don't see any benefit with XP over 98

I'm suprised that you cannot see the difference between 98 and XP, even 2000 is much much better than 98.

I can't see anything wrong with Microsoft not wanting to support 11 year old software any more.

Brent · 6th November 2006

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Originally Posted by JonRohan

I'm suprised that you cannot see the difference between 98 and XP, even 2000 is much much better than 98.

I can't see anything wrong with Microsoft not wanting to support 11 year old software any more.

I was stating the fact that - as a very light user of a home computer - I do not see the benefit of XP over 98.

I do agree that an 11 yrs old package should no longer be supported but MS do tend to go about these things a bit underhand

othellotech · 9th November 2006

We still have clients using dos 6.22 as well as wfw3.11 and win-nt 3.51 (thats still very popular with corporates)

With software certification and testing potentially taking yeras, followed by a roll-out to 5000+ branches worldwide, its inevitable that some things are circa 5-10 years behind the "latest" o/s - but if it works why change it - remember it wasnt too long ago that computers cost several million $ each, and had a life expectancy of 30 years !

chrismarks · 10th November 2006

showing your age there, rob

Hypermediocrity · 11th November 2006

Actually, that reminds me - one of my clients is still running WinNT 3.51 server - part of Microsoft BackOffice 2.0!

Needless to say we've just started installing a new SBS 2003 network in it's place!

lxserverdirect · 12th December 2006

I have many customers on 98 still mainly because their pc is older and dont want to upgrade

Dexxa · 12th December 2006

omg window's 98, yea but the good thing about with win98 i never had as many crashes as i do with windows xp