Win95 Support

[ErnieK]

MS has now withdrawn support for win95, so i hope anyone running it has all the updates and patches required for it

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Ernie

[Novice_Nomad]

Ernie,
Where did you hear that from? Has there been a final date for support set?

[Paul Komski]

I have just been told that support for 98 will be withdrawn soon. I have not seen this posted anywhere reliable to checkout anymore than I have been able to check it out for 95. Does anyone have a reference link for this.

All I know is that you can still go to http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.asp and search for the specific OS and download the items listed in your search. I have just done it to try it out for security updates for both Win95 and Win98 and they downloaded just fine.

The only catch that I can see is that if you are not using IE6 and want IE updates; then it wants you to upgrade(!?) to IE6 in order to download them, which doesnt make much sense if you are trying to patch an earlier version; but that's par for the course I guess.


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Take nice care of yourselves - Paul
"There are old pilots and bold pilots but there are no old bold pilots."

[classicsoftware]

MS supports an OS for 5 years. The clock has run out on Win95 and will run out on Win98 some time next year. NT 4.0 is almost out of steam as well.

[YODA74]

if you need anykind of drivers and things for 95
http://www.marketwizz.net/windows95/win95b/

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Death has come to our windows.

-- Jeremiah 9:21
(undoubtedly a Biblical reference to a Microsoft product!)

YODA74@carolina.rr.com

[Paul Komski]

Here are two M$ links relating to support withdrawl (the first one seems very busy and may be hard to get into).

CLIENT OPERATING SYSTEMS LIFECYCLE ANNOUNCEMENT (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=%2Fdirectory%2Fdiscontinue%2Easp )
Windows Desktop Product Lifecycle Guidelines (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/lifecycle.asp)

As far as I can see all of this mostly relates to OEM-licensing and to business technical support.

I could find no reference to withrawing their 24/7 web-base of Product Downloads or the Knowledge Base - although I suppose these will no longer be updated.

So unless you are going to miss getting customer telephone or on-line support from an "individual" at M$ I don't see that the status quo is going to be radically affected. Maybe someone knows to the contrary though.

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Take nice care of yourselves - Paul
"There are old pilots and bold pilots but there are no old bold pilots."

[ErnieK]

The Links I have are as follows adn are Copied from Fred Langa's News Letter

Microsoft's new "Desktop Product Lifecycle Guidelines" affect *all*
their products--- not just operating systems. See
http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2001/2001-11-15.htm#1 and http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2001/2001-10-29.htm#1 for more info.
And if you want to see when Microsoft will pull the plug on support for
*your* software, check out http://www.microsoft.com/windows/lifecycleconsumer.asp and http://support.microsoft.com/directory/discontinue.asp .

Windows Update supports the following Operating
Systems:

Windows XP
Windows Millennium Edition (Windows Me)
Windows 2000
Windows 98
Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 6a

Yoda - Thanks for the link will be very handy if it stays there. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/wink.gif



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Ernie