Microsoft was scheduled to discontinue support of Windows 98 on January 16th. Today they announced that they will extend paid support for Windows 98 until June 30, 2006.
With about 20% of workstations still running Windows 98, Microsoft was getting a lot of grief over their dropping of support of the product. In order to keep their customers happy they have extended paid phone support and will provide security updates during this time.
While this is good news I still suggest that Clients that are running Windows 98 workstations look at the benefits of moving to Windows XP. Microsoft will not add new features to Windows 98. Things like wireless, VPNs, firewalls, etc will not be natively available as they are in Windows XP. The bottom line is that XP is easier to use, more stable and more secure.
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