One of the news items that generated the most chatter among Hackaday editors this week was that ESA’s Mars Express mission is receiving a software update. And they’re updating the operating system ...

Microsoft says it's taking decisive action to cut off support for Windows '98 and ME because they pose a security risk....where have we heard that before? Microsoft took another turn with that little ...

My PC always stated "updating config files" once I updated the msconfig settings.<P>And now it says "Windows 98 loading DOS program" every since a ran this one DOS game. And the Windows 98 startup ...

I've been having problems with a win98 computer the last week where I thought I had a hardware problem.<BR>I currently only have the orig. Mb and lan card.<BR><BR>I have stuck a new harddrive in ...

Days after software giant Microsoft Corp. announced that it will stop distributing the Windows 98 operating system, and weeks ahead of the scheduled end of support, industry experts warn that the OS ...

Tuesday is D-Day for Windows 98, 98 SE and ME users. After some extensions, Microsoft is finally ending its association with the eight-year-old Windows 98 operating system by dropping all support and ...

Days before it was to end support for Windows 98 and Windows 98 Second Edition, Microsoft Corp. has decided to extend the life of the products until June 30, 2006. The software vendor also said in a ...

Considering that Windows NT has the concept of so-called ‘subsystems’ whereby you can run different systems side-by-side, starting with the POSIX subsystem and later the Windows Subsystem for Linux ...

Were you around for the heyday of Windows 98? PC gamers were slow to adopt Windows 95 because the conventional game design paradigm of talking directly to the hardware was a big no-no in the new ...

What was Microsoft’s best Windows operating system of all time? If you’re like us, you have…opinions. Even if you’re not the type to parse through all of the little details that separated Windows 98 ...

Similar to Y2K22 and the far more popular Y2K superbugs, Y2K38 is also expected to wreak havoc in the computing world. Surprisingly, a Windows 95, 98, and 2000 era app is unaffected by it. Unless you ...