Win 98, Your time is up!

El Brenty · Post by **El Brenty** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 5:36 pm

Well, sometime in August apparently!

Microsoft will be pulling the plug on support on this and as far as I'm informed Win 2000 as well.

Download all the latest drivers, patches and updates you can to make sure your system is as up to date as it can be and if possible, back up copies of these drivers should you need to re-install them.

This usually implies that Microsoft are ready to roll out something new, which is probably its awaited 64-bit Operating system. I'm guessing that's the case seeing that 64-bit processors are getting quite popular suddenly even though they're not really supported properly!

I run a hybrid network of Xp and 98SE machines, so I'm partly affected by this, and can't get XP drivers for some of the hardware. Oh well, Just have to upgrade when something goes wrong next time.

Truggy · Post by **Truggy** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 5:54 pm

i was told that theres a new os thats upgradeable from windows xp called "Windows xp falcon" dunno if its true, i heard costs 100 bucks to upgrade from xp, adds a whole bucketload of features...or something..dunno...i they dont support windows 2000 anymore lol i feel sorry for my school, they have microsoft guys come in and fix major problems, so they'll have to update which will cost them alot...so i laugh...lol

U.S.Amateurfilmaker · Post by **U.S.Amateurfilmaker** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 6:51 pm

Every school on the face of the planet seems to run Win 2000. Why don't they just run XP? My school just bought a whole bunch of new Dell's and they came with Win 2000! But yet they go and get new OSX disks for the Macs.

Raptor · Post by **Raptor** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 6:58 pm

Win 2k support will continue for some time. As will 98 support, so long as you are willing to pay LOL.. I just called MS for an NT4.0 server issue 2 weks ago... even tho 'support' for 4.0 was dropped about 18 months ago. Also Windows update still carries the updates for NT 4.0 and probably will for 98. The typical freebie support, direct website for the OS etc will go away. support.microsoft.com will still have trouble shooting articles available. The next release ofan MS client operating system - Longhorn - has been moved back.. again to late '05 and may move again to 1st Q '06.

Truggy · Post by **Truggy** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 7:20 pm

Longhorn that was the name. thanx raptor...hehe

U.S.Amateurfilmaker · Post by **U.S.Amateurfilmaker** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 8:48 pm

I think they have a beta longhorn avaliable for download somewhere, but i forget the site.

justsomeguy · Post by **justsomeguy** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 12:08 am

I think they have a beta longhorn avaliable for download somewhere, but i forget the site.

some people get the beta version and sell it saying its an early realease or something

Raptor · Post by **Raptor** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 12:30 am

I was able to DL the beta since we are a Microsft Certified Partner from Microsoft. I beleieve it was available to anyone who had an MSDN Developer subscription. The keys however were unique for each subscriber, so unlesss you got a good working key, and registered the product, it is only good for like 45 days ( I think it was 45 ...)

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 1:12 am

Longhorn and the new IE are still maybe a year or so off officially. Of course they will be pulling support they want everyone to upgrade. Hopefully they have not got the dreaded new security system publically accepted yet

U.S.Amateurfilmaker · Post by **U.S.Amateurfilmaker** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 2:41 am

Are you talking about the feature that automatically reports you for illegal audio and movie files that don't have the proper license? Because it was rumored that the new Win OS would have that.

justsomeguy · Post by **justsomeguy** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 4:47 am

Are you talking about the feature that automatically reports you for illegal audio and movie files that don't have the proper license? Because it was rumored that the new Win OS would have that.

whoa this is the first i heard about this, thatd really suck

not that i download stuf like that

xbreaka420 · Post by **xbreaka420** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 5:29 am

i tried the longhorn beta, and it's 100% legal :shh:

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 1:09 pm

the news system they want is to enable the OS to be online only and a web booter. But in the mean time they are teaming up with INTEL, AMD and a heap of other IT companies to have integrated security in hardware & software which will detect pirate software etc and eliminate it. It will also enable any files created on pirate running systems not to work on the new protected ones at all. If it happens it will be very interesting

El Brenty · Post by **El Brenty** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 3:35 pm

More info here! http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/viewf ... dc8fab8ea4

justsomeguy · Post by **justsomeguy** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 8:23 pm

i tried the longhorn beta, and it's 100% legal

is it cool?

xbreaka420 · Post by **xbreaka420** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 8:48 pm

nah its not to great, full of bugs, interface is crashy

El Brenty · Post by **El Brenty** » Sun Jul 18, 2004 9:37 pm

Sounds like the Longhorn bullsh*t version to me!

I somehow doubt that a 14 year old is a member of the Microsoft Developer Network! Raptor on the other hand, may very well be!

http://msdn.microsoft.com/longhorn/

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Sun Jul 18, 2004 11:57 pm

nah Cammy i have seen a very early version of it floating around, more of an XP add on though than a Longhorn tester. I am sure Longhorn is not due until mid-late next year yeah?

mark_essex_87 · Post by **mark_essex_87** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 12:03 pm

I think they have a beta longhorn avaliable for download somewhere, but i forget the site.

Suprnova :silenced:

ssj3gohan · Post by **ssj3gohan** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 3:21 pm

you can download it on every popular downloading protocol, including IRC (http://www.packetnews.com), torrent (http://www.suprnova.org) and newsgroups (http://www.binaries.nl). 100% legal because you can't do fudge nugget with them, the stupid thing isn't stable for more than 7 mins!!!