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Answer» Not very many, if the following quote is true. Who is still using windows 98Same source says in 2012 Windows Server 2003 was at 0.6% But Windows 7 is now the leader in the western world, with over half of the world users on it. Not a surprise, Linux is just under the Mac OS. For more up to date stats, do a search on "most popular OS" Softpedia has a nice graphic. But Windows 98 and Linux are both ignored. Window 8 in fourth place. So, do you use Windows 98? Your grandmother? I don't think I'd trust any statistics like this without knowing how they were gathered, to be honest. After all Mainframe systems like VAX/VMS (or rather compatible forks, such as THEOS) are still around and used fairly prevalently, but you do not see them appear on any charts; For Actual PC systems Industrial or POS Systems sometimes still use DOS-based systems, but those don't get counted either. What usually get's counted are DESKTOPS and laptops. But then you have to wonder how they gathered that information to begin with. usually they source it through some other agency, and that other agency is almost always using some sort of internet analytics, so you are actually seeing how many Internet-connected desktop systems identify as a given Operating System. I imagine 98SE is still used for many systems that aren't connected to the internet at all. I know my 440CDX Laptop is running 98SE and doesn't have any CONNECTIVITY, so wouldn't be a statistic anywhere.I have 2 licenses of Windows 98SE and one of them I put on a virtual machine that I rarely use. The other I had on a Pentium 3 600Mhz laptop for a while, but when I found that the older games ran perfectly FINE under Windows XP, so I stopped using 98SE for older games. Once back in like 2002 I installed Windows 98 SE to a Pentium 4 2Ghz computer with 128MB RAM and had a laugh at how fast the drums were beating during the install portion. There was an old piece of scale software that malfunctioned under Windows XP, so I installed Windows 98SE to a 4.3GB BigFoot HDD that I had from an older Acer computer from 1995 or 1996 and used system commander to dual boot. Every NHS hospital, doctors surgery, dentist i've ever been in, in the UKQuote from: reddevilggg on August 09, 2013, 08:24:18 AM Every NHS hospital, doctors surgery, dentist i've ever been in, in the UK My wife is an NHS hospital pharmacy manager. They RECENTLY transitioned from XP to Windows 7. I still run it cause, I have to be used to all differnt versions of Windows. Also, some of the software I have wont work on newer OS. I just recently put a 2003 Server up cause, thats all that will work on the unit I had to put it on.I recently discovered an old CD, still in sleeve, never installed, and yes it was a windows 98 original. Also in that very same box was my 1.44 discs of Win 3.1 . I was going to put them on EBAY as memorabilia.It stands to reason that Windows 98 is not running on machines connected to the Internet. However, I think that in the industry there are many older computers with serial and parallel outputs connected to old but still valid and productive production machines. Some of the software for these machines wont work on newer O.S. This old hardware needs a consistent operating system and one of the best for this is windows 98SE. Some colleagues have talked about it. |
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