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Hello Paul - 

MK>> I don't know what the 98 holdouts are going to do in the
MK>> near future when they find themselves totally out of step
MK>> and their systems unsupported. 

PW> Microsoft supports windows 98 just as well today as they
PW> did when new. The only reason to change to a more recent
PW> microsoft product might be to support a masochistic streak
PW> or perhaps some of the newer games. As long as you don't
PW> trust it with a line out, it will remain as reliable as
PW> anything micrsoft has produced to date. 

I tend to agree with what you've said, Microsoft continues to
'support' DOS and W31 just not as much as before. I've always
understood the lack of 'support' to mean that they won't go
back and write patch files to fix those OS which only makes
sense from a business standpoint. 

Reasons to update to a newer versions of Windows might be to
get use of more than 256 meg of memory, support larger hard
drives, avoid the major fragmentation of FAT32, support for USB
2.0 and other newer hardware that W98 does not support. DOOM
III, for instance, won't work on W98 machines. :-) 

PW> It could be worse ... 

True. 

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