They reached an out of court settlement with Sun over Java and this means no
more sales of W98.

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Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
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"Steve Hayes" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 07:04:52 -0500, "Ron Badour"
wrote:

Another alternative--upgrade to SE as more and more hardware/software
require it as a minimum level operating system. This is my standard
blurb--see the update section in particular:

MS can no longer sell W98 disks as an initial purchase so your best bet
is
to try to find another source; however, supplies of W98 are becoming
very
limited.

Why can't they?

Is there a law against it?


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Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
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