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Windows 98, Me Support to End in July | |
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| Time: 00:00 EST/05:00 GMT | News Source: BetaNews | Posted By: Michael Dragone | ||
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Microsoft has officially begun requesting that users running Windows 98, 98 SE and Millennium Edition (Me) upgrade their operating system as soon as possible. The Redmond company will cease all public and technical support for the products on July 11, 2006, including all security updates. | ||
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| #1 By 5912 (62.58.60.27) at 4/12/2006 2:11:14 AM |
| I run Windows ME on my old P2 and do not plan to upgrade because it simply doesn't make any sense to install a 'heavy' OS like XP on a machine like this. It works fine anyway and I actually find ME's driver support better than that of XP or W2k. |
| #2 By 22962 (12.205.118.31) at 4/12/2006 3:58:39 AM |
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I run win xp on my P2 machine.. no problem.
Also run win xp on my P3 machine.. no problem. |
| #3 By 61 (72.64.207.236) at 4/12/2006 7:49:57 AM |
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Install BeOS on it.
Also, there is NO way that ME's hardware support is better than XP. |
| #4 By 2960 (68.101.39.180) at 4/12/2006 8:17:56 AM |
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I agree with CPUGuy. There's a reason why WinME was the bane of many's existance. It's driver model SUCKED.
This was without a doubt the most unstable OS I've ever seen. -Larry |
| #5 By 13030 (198.22.121.110) at 4/12/2006 9:46:06 AM |
| I have an old P2 running Windows 98 and Office 97. It works just fine. |
| #6 By 22962 (12.205.118.31) at 4/12/2006 9:51:45 AM |
| I stay away from Win ME... A friend of mine had problems with it all the time.. I kept fixing it for him everytime! Finally he got rid of it and got a new computer with pre-installed xp. |
| #7 By 12071 (203.158.34.64) at 4/12/2006 10:37:26 AM |
| #4 WinME was interesting - it doesn't take long to find several thousand opinions about how it was the worst OS ever put out, riddled with bugs etc., however you can just as easily find many (althought not as many - perhaps they were lucky or just the less vocal of the bunch!) people that had no problems with it whatsoever (well aside from the usual Windows issues) and who were very happy with it over 98SE. |
| #8 By 8556 (12.217.111.92) at 4/12/2006 10:56:32 AM |
| chris_k: Win Me was borderline acceptable after shutting off the adolescent system restore function and deleting all the hidden contents of the restore_ folder, which never seemed to shrink after being system restore was disabled. |
| #9 By 61 (72.64.207.236) at 4/12/2006 4:14:19 PM |
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The beta versions of ME were actually better than the final release, I have to say.
Hell, the search function was instantaneous, boot time was VERY short (still was at launch, but time increased) and overall worked very well. Then all of a sudden the build of suck was released. At this point it started getting bad. I actually had a developer contact me and basically told me I was lieing about a bug I'd submitted. I was just like, WTF. When ME was done, I went to 2000. |
| #10 By 5912 (62.58.60.27) at 4/13/2006 3:38:11 AM |
| #7 I have the same experience. My sisters pc came pre-installed with ME and was a bloody mess of all sorts of troubles. But after installing it on the Pentium 2 I mentioned earlier, it was just a joy to use. Really zero problems whatsoever and probably the most stable incarnation of Win9x I ever used. |
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