Daniel-J Posted October 20, 2007 Share Posted October 20, 2007 Everyone has no doubt heard that a dog year is seven human years. By the time you have owned your little pup for 3 years, he will have aged 21 years! Obviously the same can be said for computers. But the ratio is much higher! Windows 98 was "born" August of 1998. Nine years later, it's still kicking, but is (by Microsoft) deemed dead. No more updates, any new software being developped beyond this year is written for Windows 2000 or higher. That means that Windows 98 had a good long life of about 82 digital years! RIP Windows 98! We will always remember you!Looking back at the 90's, where were you in life? I graduated from high school the year Windows 3.1 was released (1992). (The Windows registry was also introduced with Windows 3.1...oh that blasted registry! Now Microsoft wants to get rid of it! Can you blame them?) Windows 95 came out the same year I got married...I was married in 1996. Just kidding! I was married in May of 1995, just three months before Windows 95 came out. In 1998, when Window 98 came out, I was still alive. Nothing exciting in my life at that point. But some really good movies came out that year. There was Enemy of the State with Will Smith and Gene Hackman. Armageddon with Bruce Willis was also a not bad film at the time. And how could we forget Disney/Pixar's A Bug's Life. Great animation even today! The next versions of Windows (that I know of) weren't until 2000 with ME and 2000. I know there was a CE in there somewhere, but I don't think it ever flew very far! So, when you think about it, Windows 9x are really not that old! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awergh Posted October 20, 2007 Share Posted October 20, 2007 (edited) And just for fun i posted all the release dates, which should be right if wikipedia is. I only copied the OS's that were cared about, since i dont think 1.xx and 2.xx were very popular3.0 : May 22, 19903.1x : March 18, 1992NT3.1 : July 27, 1993NT3.5 : September 21, 1994NT3.51 : May 30, 199595 : August 24, 1995NT4 : July 29, 199698 : June 25, 199898SE : May 5, 19992000 : February 17, 2000ME : September 14, 2000XP : October 25, 20012003 : April 24, 2003Vista : November 8, 2006 Edited October 24, 2007 by awergh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscardog Posted October 20, 2007 Share Posted October 20, 2007 Everyone has no doubt heard that a dog year is seven human years. By the time you have owned your little pup for 3 years, he will have aged 21 years! Obviously the same can be said for computers. But the ratio is much higher! Windows 98 was "born" August of 1998. Nine years later, it's still kicking, but is (by Microsoft) deemed dead. No more updates, any new software being developped beyond this year is written for Windows 2000 or higher. That means that Windows 98 had a good long life of about 82 digital years! RIP Windows 98! We will always remember you!Looking back at the 90's, where were you in life? I graduated from high school the year Windows 3.1 was released (1992). (The Windows registry was also introduced with Windows 3.1...oh that blasted registry! Now Microsoft wants to get rid of it! Can you blame them?) Windows 95 came out the same year I got married...I was married in 1996. Just kidding! I was married in May of 1995, just three months before Windows 95 came out. In 1998, when Window 98 came out, I was still alive. Nothing exciting in my life at that point. But some really good movies came out that year. There was Enemy of the State with Will Smith and Gene Hackman. Armageddon with Bruce Willis was also a not bad film at the time. And how could we forget Disney/Pixar's A Bug's Life. Great animation even today! The next versions of Windows (that I know of) weren't until 2000 with ME and 2000. I know there was a CE in there somewhere, but I don't think it ever flew very far! So, when you think about it, Windows 9x are really not that old!Its perhaps not as dead as people think, breaking the 137gb barrier,patching the vmm allowing in excess of 3.5 gigs of ram, allowing xp apps to run, plus all the autopatching apps and gui enhancements. Who would have thought the os could have been modified so much. Hopefully if the system resource limitations can be overcome perhaps by using 32bit for the pointers of its resource table, and work progresses on creating device drivers for later day hardware it will still be good to go for the next ten years or more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
submix8c Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 awergh - you forgot ME-ME-ME, the "cross-breed" (followed 2K & preceded XP, kind of a Pre-XP Home Edition)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PC_LOAD_LETTER Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 awergh - you forgot ME-ME-ME, the "cross-breed" (followed 2K & preceded XP, kind of a Pre-XP Home Edition)...Thats because Windows ME wasn't actually released. It was chased out of Redmond by Microsoft programmers carrying torches and pitchforks. From there it was copied and released directly to the warez scene. Anyone that claims to have Purchased a copy from retail is lying. Because honestly, who would admit to that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awergh Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 oops, i forgot that but its true not many people would admit getting it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dblake1 Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 Did you know that in Windows 98SE if you go to C:\%WINDIR%\EXPLORER.EXE and right click>Properties, it says "Windows NT Operating System". Isn't Windows 98SE a crossbreed between Windows NT 3.xx and Windows 2000? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJARRRPCGP Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 Everyone has no doubt heard that a dog year is seven human years. By the time you have owned your little pup for 3 years, he will have aged 21 years! Obviously the same can be said for computers. But the ratio is much higher! Windows 98 was "born" August of 1998. Nine years later, it's still kicking, but is (by Microsoft) deemed dead. No more updates, any new software being developped beyond this year is written for Windows 2000 or higher. That means that Windows 98 had a good long life of about 82 digital years! RIP Windows 98! We will always remember you!Looking back at the 90's, where were you in life? I graduated from high school the year Windows 3.1 was released (1992). (The Windows registry was also introduced with Windows 3.1...oh that blasted registry! Now Microsoft wants to get rid of it! Can you blame them?) Windows 95 came out the same year I got married...I was married in 1996. Just kidding! I was married in May of 1995, just three months before Windows 95 came out. In 1998, when Window 98 came out, I was still alive. Nothing exciting in my life at that point. But some really good movies came out that year. There was Enemy of the State with Will Smith and Gene Hackman. Armageddon with Bruce Willis was also a not bad film at the time. And how could we forget Disney/Pixar's A Bug's Life. Great animation even today! The next versions of Windows (that I know of) weren't until 2000 with ME and 2000. I know there was a CE in there somewhere, but I don't think it ever flew very far! So, when you think about it, Windows 9x are really not that old!Yes, the registry was introduced with Windows 3.1, but the majority wasn't stored there, thus, you usually didn't go there for the configuration settings. The majority of the configuration settings were in ini files. The registry probably wasn't even in the same format. The registry as we know it didn't exist until Windows 95. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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