Nick-C This person is a verified professional. Snufykat This person is a verified professional. Big Green Man This person is a verified professional. EloffG wrote: I know this is strange but can win 98 be loaded onto a modern computer? I have a program that will only run on 98, so thats why I am asking For production or personal use? Is virtualization on the table? This person is a verified professional. Virtualization is going to be pretty much your only option here.
Ghost Chili. EloffG This person is a verified professional. EloffG wrote: Its for a lego program to program the lego mindstorm series bricks. Does it require special hardware? If so, that could rule out virtualization.
EloffG wrote: I have the media, Dell-media managed to get it out of my old software box. Romo This person is a verified professional. Chris Microsoft wrote: Do you want the licensing answer? Only requires win 98, for their special program to run. It communicates with the brick via ir. Thai Pepper. Oscar This person is a verified professional. Indeed, if you installed Internet Explorer 4.
One strength here was how you could tailor the interface to your liking, which was just as well, as a number users at the time felt that the web stuff could get in the way particularly some of the more intrusive elements. Another quick aside: this direct integration of Internet Explorer into Windows led to accusations of Microsoft unfairly leveraging its own web browser over rival efforts like Netscape , and a big anti-trust action was launched against the software giant later in one that nearly resulted in the company being forcibly split into two.
It was pretty basic, though, in this initial incarnation. Windows 98 further ushered in a number of new system maintenance tools, including utilities to keep your hard disk running more smoothly, such as Disk Cleanup, which got rid of temporary files and other unnecessary clutter.
The OS also allowed users to switch their hard drive to FAT32 format, freeing up some more room on the disk in the process. What Windows 98 really represented was a stepping stone, followed by a second step with Windows 98 SE — the substantially tweaked Second Edition of the OS — which truly shaped and refined what Windows 95 started. With Windows 95, we received a recognizably modern OS, but with Windows 98, Microsoft delivered a recognizably modern OS that was polished enough to be truly worth taking note of.
So, on balance, for that reason, we will say yes: this is an operating system worth celebrating. So crack open some champagne, a beer, or your beverage of choice, and raise a toast to Windows 98 two decades on from its launch.
Namely Windows XP, which arrived in and is certainly more fondly remembered — and indeed still unwisely used by some folks even today. It made big improvements over Windows 95 in almost every area that mattered, and at the time it actually looked extremely sleek and clean.
Not wanting to cheat by installing Windows 98 on current PC hardware, the intrepid retro software adventurer Oldtech81 decided to use a machine from the same period. He settled on a Compaq Armada e laptop, which looks like a massive chunk of flagstone. After some issues getting the computer to actually boot up properly — no surprises there — he was able to run the outdated OS just fine.
Then came the big test: using the computer for day-to-day work and leisure.
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