The following was recently posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion:

"So, while I wasn't looking, they apparently deleted all 9x Updates from the

Windows Update Catalog (now renamed "Microsoft Update Catalog".)"

Can anyone confirm?

Does this mean automated updating via windows update web site no longer works for win-98?

If this is true, its a sad day for Win98

I've just feeded a clean W98SE image to a virtual machine, installed IE6, and clicked on Windows Update. It found 23 critical updates. So I suppose everything still works.

You can only access the old Windows Update Catalog from Windows 98 or ME. 2000, XP, and 2003 use the new Microsoft Update Catalog.

the_guy

I just tried launching Windows Update. Everything works perfect.

Great news.

Surely with how cheap data storage is these days, and the small size of Windows 9x's updates.... Microsoft could make these patches available for a long time to come!!!