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 ...

Today, Microsoft is laying one of its most successful products ever down to die — the Windows 9x series of operating systems. Support for Windows 98 and Windows ME officially is history. Rest in peace ...

Days before it was to end support for Windows 98 and Windows 98 Second Edition, Microsoft Corp. has decided to extend the life of the products until June 30, 2006. The software vendor also said in a ...

Even in mid 2003, a big percentage of home users are still using Windows 98/SE. I use both, but still haven't come across a game or app that is exclusively XPified. Some of the games I play still run ...

One market research firm estimates about 20 percent of Windows-based computers still use either Windows 95 or 98. Microsoft stopped offering support for the older version more than two years ago.

Please note: This item is from our archives and was published in 2004. It is provided for historical reference. The content may be out of date and links may no longer function. Q. I’ve been using ...

In brief: It's now possible to run a barebones version of Discord on legacy Microsoft operating systems including Windows 98 (and even Windows 95, if you're willing to jump through a few extra hoops).

Reader Steve P. sends in this question: “I’m running Windows 2000 and want to upgrade my system BIOS. The instructions say to create a bootable disk with the format a:/s command. However, the /s doesn ...