Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 11th Jul 2006 12:07 UTC
From today, Microsoft will no longer issue security updates or provide support for Windows 98 and Windows ME, which could lead users to trying alternative operating systems such as Linux. 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.
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<begin_rant>XP should have been whatīs Vista today.Unfortunately the monopoly dictates not quality.I have just installed Vista x86_64 "ultimate".Whatīs ultimate by the way?Ultimate delay?I really donīt know whatīs so ultimate,canīt be the ubundance of applications.Must be the ultimate lack of it.In this case the poor customers have to pay a lot for less.
On my box with a AMD64 XP3000 (2.2 GHz) 1Gb pc3200 ddr,Vista is slow as hell.Only with system-restore,indexing diabled and classic w2k theme the overall system performance is reasonable.
So you could ask yourself whatīs all the fuzz about.*Directx10*.Well ...</end_rand>