End of support for 16-bit Windows

End of support for 16-bit Windows

Posted Jan 15, 2004 0:55 UTC (Thu) by iwilcox (guest, #18701)
In reply to: End of support for 16-bit Windows by gdt
Parent article: LWN's Obviously Incorrect 2004 Predictions

> The other big event is the end of support for the last 16-bit Windows operating systems (Win 98SE and Win ME).
> People are looking for a supported operating system for their Pentiums and Pentium IIs

Who wants paid-for support of OSs that old? Desktop users don't pay and have long since moved on to 2k/XP anyway. The only bodies I can imagine being in that position are companies with an investment so large (and budgeting/foresight so poor) that they missed a whole (3 year) hardware replacement cycle and now have a huge investment in what is now very dated hardware that does its job very slowly. No company in that position with any sense or serious buying power (and therefore any market sway) decides to miss yet another replacement cycle and reuse the hardware yet again. This market doesn't even register.

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