Microsoft promotes Linux!
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mdlbearMicrosoft ends support for Windows 98 | The Register
So Microsoft is ending support (and security updates) for Win98, 98SE, and ME. Leaving users with four choices: keep using it and take their chances, try to upgrade (spending $100 to upgrade a machine that's probably not worth more than $75 by now and probably doesn't have nearly enough horsepower for XP), replace the machine altogether, or switch to Linux.
Most consumers will probably keep using Win98 until their machine dies of bitrot; the corporate users will pick one of the other two. I'm guessing that enough will opt to keep their old machines and switch to Linux to be noticable.
Or at least I can hope so.
So Microsoft is ending support (and security updates) for Win98, 98SE, and ME. Leaving users with four choices: keep using it and take their chances, try to upgrade (spending $100 to upgrade a machine that's probably not worth more than $75 by now and probably doesn't have nearly enough horsepower for XP), replace the machine altogether, or switch to Linux.
Most consumers will probably keep using Win98 until their machine dies of bitrot; the corporate users will pick one of the other two. I'm guessing that enough will opt to keep their old machines and switch to Linux to be noticable.
Or at least I can hope so.
