End of Road for win 98

11 July 2006 will be marked as an important date in the history of Microsoft , as it is stopping the support for its most popular kid Windows 98.It means to its 70 million users it no longer fix bugs, provide telephone support and provide security patches.The product which was launched 8 years ago has been the beloved kid for Bill.Though its stopped selling it after the launch of Windows XP, it continued to provide support till today.Now Microsoft has decided to cross-mark it and it should have already alarmed its customers to upgrade to safer OS,XP.Most importan part of the support I feel will be security Patches from the Microsoft , because all other bugs should already have been fixed and customers may not worry about this.If the customers do not connect to WWW, which is primary door for the malicious programs to get in , they need not worry.Other versions that also come under this end of support as part of the Microsoft Lifecycle Policy are Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition,and Windows Me.However the documents and other content related to the self-service and bugs will be continue to be available in the microsoft website for few more years.

http://support.microsoft.com/gp/hublist
Also alarmed the End of support for Windows XP Service Pack 1.
For this October 10 ,2006 has been set as the target date.All users using SP1 can upgrade tp SP2 for free.Here is the link for it http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sp2/default.mspx

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