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Win98/98SE/ME users granted more time
« on: January 13, 2004, 08:15:52 AM »
Users of Win98/98SE/ME were due to have their support cut-off Friday Jan 16 2004.  But MS has extended it to June 30, 2006

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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39119028,00.htm

[Edited on 1-13-2004 by ZWarrior]
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« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2004, 12:41:48 PM »
aww, bless there pointed little heads.
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« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2004, 10:30:44 PM »
They just wanted to get the expiration for the 9x series to be all the same.
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« Reply #3 on: January 13, 2004, 10:42:27 PM »
Temporary boost for holiday sales????
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« Reply #4 on: January 13, 2004, 11:45:10 PM »
naw, you can't buy WinME anymore.

Just trying to keep the masses happy.
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Book: Very specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzy around the area of kneecaps.

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« Reply #5 on: January 14, 2004, 12:12:37 AM »
People like my dad.
The man say Win98SE was the last working windows.:rolleyes:
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« Reply #6 on: January 14, 2004, 01:24:18 AM »
No, I mean to boost the sales of XP.
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« Reply #7 on: January 14, 2004, 08:15:34 AM »
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People like my dad.
The man say Win98SE was the last working windows.:rolleyes:


That's pretty sad.  I was more than happy to get rid of 98.  That thing stank up this house so bad...
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« Reply #8 on: January 14, 2004, 11:45:36 AM »
I remember those days:D
Yeah my dad laughed at me when I put XP pro on my box. He said I would have so many problem, and it would be soo slow.
so I had ran experiment with him I loaded Win 98 on my box and clocked the boot up and program load time then I put XP back on and did the same thing and with XP my times where faster. He said it was just my computer. I said Good at least I can build a good computer:D
anywho to make a long story short my dad dispises Wndows is only love is DOS 6.22. I can't even get him to use Linux. "DOS was the only true OS" I liked Dos but there is just one problem that made me upgrade .....Software Support!
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