On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 06:36:14 -0000, wrote:

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Personally, I can do everything with Win98 that I can do with XP and up.
All my (mostly older) software works just fine and is used to be
productive. Where Win98 is failing today, is with the internet, and
only with the internet. The new websites (with all their bloat), wont
run well on older browsers, and newer browsers wont run on Win98. But I
think that's all planned, to force us to upgrade to all this newer crap.

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New hardware won't have W98 drivers available. This means you miss out
modern faster gizmos. And anything 2G. 64bit W7 can handle many terabytes
of memory, w98 is limited to 2G IIRC. These things are progress. But I
mostly agree, learning a new UI every release is a PIA.

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