Depending on whom you ask, Windows 98 is either the easiest and most stable operating system upgrade yet for personal computers or an exasperating experience that plunges many users into the technical ...

I have three Windows 98 computers, ranging from 166MHz-300MHz. The hard drives are fragmented to hell and need defragmented. 98's built-in defragment software sucks. Everytime I run it, I get ...

If you have any interest in retro-computing, you know it can be difficult to round up the last official bug fixes and updates available for early Internet-era versions of Windows like 95, 98, and NT 4 ...

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After almost 20 years, this mission is still going strong, and it's even gaining new capabilities. But to get there, the ESA had to replace the probe's ancient software, which was based on Windows 98.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has finally decided to give the Mars Express probe a software update. It's been running on a 20-year-old operating system all this time, and the organisation figured an ...

Days after software giant Microsoft announced it would stop distributing the Windows 98 operating system, and weeks ahead of the scheduled end of support, industry experts warn that the operating ...