Does anyone still use windows 98

I've been thinking of dusting it off too to see if it'll run an old game a friend gave me: Star Flight 2, Trade Routes of the Cloud Nebula.

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General discussion. My wife's papaw uses Win98 he has a lot of computers , has a laptop running XP, but his using 98 really shocked me. Share Flag. All Comments. Collapse -. I still have older PCs that have Win 95 and Hey, wait until Col sees this, he has a huge pile of clients on DOS. I've got a client. What kind of PC are they buying? White box. No modern software supports Windows 98 anymore, but with a few kernel tweaks, OldTech81 was able to get older versions of OpenOffice and Mozilla Thunderbird designed for XP running on Windows Thunderbird turns out to be important, because trying to load a web client for email is simply not happening.

The most recent browser that works on Windows 98 is Internet Explorer 6, which was released nearly 16 years ago. The only solution is to use more kernel tweaks to load a better browser, but even then the most recent one that works is Opera I am still using it at work , but not at home since when I upgraded to Windows — then I upgraded to XP in and this was the last Windows version I ran at home. So, this person is still using Windows 95 at work today.

I have done a small internship in the IT service of a clinic, around and they still had severely outdated stuff. That was my guess too. Side note: in the story itself, when I saw the picture of the previous technology with loads of manual controls, that looked preferable to a touchscreen to me! So tactile and rewarding to use. It is quite intuitive. Even just simple volume controls were better faster and more accurate than the digital replacements.

They use a touchpad to manipulate a mouse cursor to manipulate a skeuomorphic interface of real controls. But so many new levels of indirection, ugh. What a downgrade from the old-school tools. The venerable K? Meh Win95 would have been considered high tech for the mill I used to have to support as until it finally closed down in it was running a CNC that cut custom columns that ran Win 3. It not only ran 3. My vote goes to a metal shop or something like that. Where heavy machinery is controlled by a computer.

This was mine as well. I was working with one back in that still had a machine running with windows 3. They took off again without passengers to make sure the problem was fixed, landed again, we re-embarked and got to destination 8 hours late at around 3AM. On top of this we had an hour drive at each airport.