[pchelpers] Windows 98/98SE/ME end of support

Hi Ekhart,

Thursday, April 27, 2006, 3:17:41 AM, you wrote:

EGlnl> 5) Remove the illegal XP and install a legal version of Windows
EGlnl> 98. It's easy to get a legal 98 CD free from a friend who
EGlnl> doesn't even need it any more, so she can keep it. If she gets
EGlnl> all existing security updates for Windows 98, it will be safer
EGlnl> than XP even when MS stops providing security updates soon
EGlnl> because no one is writing new malware for 98.

She will need to get all of the security updates NOW, and save them on
CD somewhere -- and this goes for everyone else also, because
Microsoft is ending all support on July 11; only the old self-help
pages will be left.

She'll also find it increasingly hard to find motherboards,
peripherals, and applications that are supported under Windows 98.
Virtually all new equipment and software already no longer includes
support for it.

-- 
Scott.



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