re: vista and windows7
Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 9:56 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
john frazier wrote:
|[...]running windows 7[...]only 2 things that i can take issue with[...]
|the help program[...]ie 8[...]
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You forgot to mention the remote kill switches.
...and apparently you haven't noticed the DRM issues yet.
You also forgot to mention that Windoze still requires an anti-virus app.
Mac OS X, Linux, BSD, Solaris, ... have NEVER required band-aids.
|win98 users [you're] still alive.
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Only those who don't want to use modern application software.
e.g. OpenOffice3 and Firefox3 won't run under M$'s stock version of Win9x.
Vendors who haven't already dropped 9x support have it on their agenda.
(Opera Software is one of the few exceptions.)
NOTE: Vendors of software firewalls have universally dropped 9x support
but that's no big loss as old versions are available free and those are better.
Most of the "best band-aid apps" don't run under Win9x
--even after the 3rd-party patches have been applied to 9x.
There isn't support for modern hardware either.
Just try to find a MoBo or peripherial that comes with Win9x device drivers.
Here's the big one:
Win9x hasn't had security updates in over 3 years--the mark of a dead platform.
...and the modern competitive product
that DOESN'T suffer from these deficiencies is available FREE:
Linux Mint
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