Thank you for your comments but Windows 98 Second Edition may be RIP for some
people but not for me and I will continue to use it to go on-line and defy
the critics and naysayers and watch and wait and see when it truly fails me
then it may be time to set my sights on something else but what truly can
beat the awesome operating system that survives an attack in September 2007
that annihilated the great Windows XP Professional operating system and 98
Second Edition responded with a Denial of Service Error to the attacker
unlike Windows XP Professional which just opened its doors to the attacker
after the APS Network was hacked and it made all the external security of a
wired ethernet router, a software firewall and other protocols a joke because
it just bypassed them. Now, I ask people to think do you want an operating
system that someone can just open up or do you want an operating system that
truly belongs to you. This argument may be over in many people's eyes but I
am stubborn.

"FromTheRafters" wrote:


"Dan" wrote in message
...
The really sad thing is that eventually there will be no 3rd party support
for Windows 98 Second Edition. The main dates I can think of off-hand are
the middle of December 2008 for support ending for Mozilla Firefox 2.x and
as
we all know Mozilla Firefox 3.x does not support Windows 98 Second
Edition.

The whole idea of application software *supporting*
operating system software would seem laughable if
were it not for the fact that to some extent it is true.

Logically, it would be the other way around since the
OS is the platform from which the applications are
launched.

It is essentially a corollary of the Betamax scenario. Many
engineers agree that Sony's Betamax system was better
than the VHS system. Tape formats are *supported* by
the respective mechanical *platforms*. But alas - it was
the *content* available for one format and not the other
that caused the downfall of an arguably better system.

So, in that sense, the content did not support the platform
and the platform ran out of air. Win98 RIP.

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