Window 98 SE Support by microsoft

[madmickey]

How much longer does anyone expect Microsoft will support Window 98 SE and what will be the consequences if they stop supporting it. Therefore in a new system is it than better to go with ME event it performance is slightly less.

 

[roomy]

It doesnt look like microsoft will support 98Se for much longer and ME is really buggy(in my opinin). Better yet, go directly to winXP.

 

[AMD_Man]

I don't see how you guys say that Windows Me is very buggy when there aren't any major new features in it expect System Restore. Disable System Restore and Windows Me will be just as fast as Windows 98SE and probably just as stable.

AMD technology + Intel technology = Intel/AMD Pentathlon IV; the <b>ULTIMATE</b> PC processor

 

[NickM]

<font color=green>” I don't see how you guys say that Windows Me is very buggy when there aren't any major new features in it expect System Restore. Disable System Restore and Windows Me will be just as fast as Windows 98SE and</font color=green><b> probably </b><font color=green>just as stable.”</font color=green>

“Probably” is the right word here to suite to WinME, I think. The WinME has also other new to Win98 features as Streamlined boot process, Suspended animation, AutoUpdate, System file protection, Windows Image Acquisition, some Internet and home networking enhancements. That made WinME one of the most bloated OS ever designed.

I’m not going to discuss WinMe or Win98 bugs, or how properly designed OS should work. As for System Restore, whould be better to read what testers said about it:

<font color=blue><i>”…System Restore ... However, there may be a huge drawback to enabling it.
After prolonged use of System Restore, my hard disk space started to mysteriously disappear. What was the source of this problem? It was the _RESTORE directory that the System Restore program uses to store information. On an early test disk, I had installed and removed a few programs for testing purposes. When I checked the total size of my restore directory after all this, it had bloated to nearly 150 MBs of backup data! Keep in mind that this disk was clean a few hours earlier. This might not directly affect 3D performance but it will seriously hinder disk performance with tons of useless data being constantly backed up on a daily basis.
Another major note was the inability to have this feature enabled while running Sysmark 2000. I had left it on initially and my _Restore directory bloated to over a GIG of data! Sysmark 2000 runs were all completed with this featured disabled for obvious reasons…” </font color=blue></i><A HREF="http://www6.tomshardware.com/consumer/00q3/000927/windowsme-01.html" target="_new">http://www6.tomshardware.com/consumer/00q3/000927/windowsme-01.html</A>

Also, I can quote from another published review about impossibility to completely disable the System Restore. It was trying to enable itself and start, actually it couldn't start but created interference and consumed computer resources.
So, I think it’s not so easy with equalizing the WinME to Win98...