Say goodbye . . .

GrandMasterTerwynn · Post by **GrandMasterTerwynn** » 2003-12-08 04:25pm

to Windows 98.

Short summary, Windows 98 will no longer be made available for developers. For that matter, Office 2000 is also getting the axe.

The Register weighs in on this too.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-12-08 05:10pm

Bah. It's funny looking on MSDN and seeing downloads of MSDOS readily available.

Tribun · Post by **Tribun** » 2003-12-08 05:35pm

I think MS only sees this as a good opportunity to kill Win98, so that they could force through thier new OS.

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2003-12-08 05:36pm

*does a happy dance on winblows 98's grave* now if they will just kill me the 2 crappiest operating systems in existance will be gone for ever.

Tribun · Post by **Tribun** » 2003-12-08 05:44pm

darthdavid wrote:*does a happy dance on winblows 98's grave* now if they will just kill me the 2 crappiest operating systems in existance will be gone for ever.

You mean ME and XP?

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-12-08 06:01pm

Tribun wrote:I think MS only sees this as a good opportunity to kill Win98, so that they could force through thier new OS.

No, they're doing this to comply with a court order. Windows 98 included the MS JVM.

If you have access to MSDN, you'd see all kinds of ancient stuff on there, like Windows 3.1 ...

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2003-12-08 06:02pm

Tribun wrote:
darthdavid wrote:*does a happy dance on winblows 98's grave* now if they will just kill me the 2 crappiest operating systems in existance will be gone for ever.
You mean ME and XP?

I don't know, he may actaully mean himself. I think the number of computers that could use him as an OS would be limited but i bet he wouldn't make a good one.

Tribun · Post by **Tribun** » 2003-12-08 06:26pm

2000AD wrote:
Tribun wrote:
darthdavid wrote:*does a happy dance on winblows 98's grave* now if they will just kill me the 2 crappiest operating systems in existance will be gone for ever.
You mean ME and XP?
I don't know, he may actaully mean himself. I think the number of computers that could use him as an OS would be limited but i bet he wouldn't make a good one.

*laugh*:lol: that one was good!