Windows 98 is, in the timescales of PCs, far, far too old to be tolerable by anyone connected to the internet. Anyone still running Windows 98 must either be using the PC virtually as a word processor, or are exposing themselves to significant frustration.
I’m sure the 30-odd% of people who have voted that they still use Windows 98 on the BBC news article will be frustrated, but it is unreasonable to ask Microsoft to support a piece of software which was poor at outset and which has been replaced by modern and stable Windows XP…
July 12th, 2006 at 2:39 am
I must disagree, if someone has paid good money for a peice of software/or product and that software has bugs/ doesn’t work properly, they have a right to expect a refund or a repair!
July 12th, 2006 at 9:36 am
If you pay for software you must expect it to have a shelf-life and, frankly, seven to eight years is far more support than you’d receive from any other vendor.
The continual updates that Microsoft have supplied have been, to some extent, self-serving, but they must also cost a fortune from a product that no-one has bought since late 2000…