Comments for Should I upgrade from Windows 98/Me?

Comment from John E on 2008-03-03

2008-03-03T11:00:52Z

Computer hardware prices have fallen considerably in real terms since the days of Windows 9x, so the cost of upgrading both hardware and software may be less than you think. It really isn't worth trying to keep old, out of date software running once it's no longer supported, and if the hardware is that old, it's probably going to start developing faults sooner rather than later. Remember that there are thousands of hours of development work that have gone into new software, and all this can be of benefit to you and your business at a relatively low cost. You are wasting your time and money by trying to work with a system that has passed its 'sell-by' date!

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Comment from Emily on 2008-02-27

2008-02-28T07:35:50Z

Leo! Your telling this guy to do a lot of stuff someone who's still running WINDOWS ME to do! There's no way he can figure out how to install a second hard drive, much less backing up and reformatting.

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Comment from Carl R. Goodwin on 2008-02-26

2008-02-27T01:52:23Z

I must be the ONLY person in the World that had no problems running Me! I thought that XP was a disaster. Ironically, I LOVE Vista!!! :)

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Comment from Eli Coten on 2008-02-23

2008-02-23T22:35:53Z

Microsoft were developing an operating system (beta codenamed Neptune) based on the Windows NT 5 platform in 2000 when they realised that XP was going to be ready first and superceed Neptune before they had a chance to release it, so they abandoned Neptune and released ME instead, but it was not because of a delay in XP. XP was always coming, just that Neptune was supposed to preceed it for the Home user versions.

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Comment from Terry Hollett on 2008-02-23

2008-02-23T12:47:59Z

Just my two cents worth:

I have never had a new computer in my life, can't afford one. But I have had a few over the years. All second hand. Bottom line here is that not everyone can rush out and buy a new system (or for that matter upgrade) evertime Microsoft decides to shove a new operating system in your face.

My first computer with XP was only a P2-266 mhz, with 64mb RAM. I couldn't put the SP2 updates on because it bogged down my system to much. I also had to turn of the fancy graphics and used programs like 'XPLite' (http://www.litepc.com/) to trim down some of the Fat.

I got lucky at a yard sale recently and now I have a P2-400mhz computer with 192mb RAM. From my experience, its not always a matter of 'Should you...' but also a matter of 'If you can..'.

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Comment from PaulM on 2008-02-19

2008-02-19T16:48:46Z

Yes, Greg, he mentioned that in the article. Twice.

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Comment from Greg Bulmash on 2008-02-18

2008-02-19T03:56:06Z

Or if the equipment's as old as the OS, they may want to switch to Linux.

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