__/ [ Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! At Raceway Speedway! ] on Tuesday 11 July 2006
17:50 \__
> B Gruff wrote:
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5165528.stm
>>
>> Fascinating!
>> The week that "they" terminate W98, the BBC re-load W98, and guess what?
>>
>> "Despite Microsoft's claims that Windows 98 makes using the net easier,
>> finding a browser that worked with the raw operating system was a
>> challenge"
>> "Internet Explorer 4.0 is now obsolete and it proved impossible to
>> download a newer version of the browser from the Microsoft site using the
>> old software"
>> "The only browser I could get working straight off was Opera - once I had
>> that working updating other components got easier"
>>
>> There must be a lesson there somewhere:-)
>>
>
> "Microsoft has ended its support for the estimated 70 million users of
> operating system Windows 98."
>
> 70 million?
>
> 70/1000 (the 1 Billion PCs worldwide) = 7 percent.
>
> Not what's reported here:
>
> http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats/
^A link from a resident troll perhaps?
> 3 percent
[sarcasm/] Maybe they dual-boot XP and 98. Or even Linux and Windows 98 (the
less sarcastic option). Either way, such machines should still count as
Windows 9x, with duality.
Best wishes,
Roy
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