Win 98

t4echo

Hello all,
I have been studying for the a+ os and have been getting alot of questions for the win98 os. Should I pay that much attn to this os? I would think that I would get more questions on 2000/XP and NT. What are your thoughts?

Ricka182

I would put a focus on XP/2000, but you should know 98 anyway. Some companies may still run it, heck one of my customers still uses Win 3.1, as a thin client! You don't have to make it your top priority, but don't neglect it either.

gravyjoe

You're totally right Ricka, but the thing I don't get is..WHY?? Why do people still use Win98 or older in their networks? It makes no sense to me . These people are just asking for security problems. Being cheap about it just doesn't get it.

TeKniques

gravyjoe wrote:

You're totally right Ricka, but the thing I don't get is..WHY?? Why do people still use Win98 or older in their networks? It makes no sense to me . These people are just asking for security problems. Being cheap about it just doesn't get it.

It's because to legally upgrade all your systems properly you have to have the coin. Microsoft licensing is not cheap and that is the reason there are so many networks still using older OS's.

Webmaster

gravyjoe wrote:

You're totally right Ricka, but the thing I don't get is..WHY?? Why do people still use Win98 or older in their networks?

A common reason is that they use custom applications that were written for DOS for example and behave differently or don't function at all on newer windows versions. And I guess many make the mistake of thinking that as long as it doesn't have a direct internet connection security is not an issue.

Wpizzi

The thing that I have seen is that companys that still use the old OS's are for many reasons.

One they don't want to change.
Two for the reasons stated above.
Three they still work so why worry about it.

When I was interviewing for a job I went on tours of the companys. There were still companys out there using OS/2 Warp. There was even a company still using the early style hard drives. I am not talking the over sized 5.25 looking drives. I am talking about the 150 pound hard drives that look like a 8U server sitting there.

Plantwiz

gravyjoe wrote:

You're totally right Ricka, but the thing I don't get is..WHY?? Why do people still use Win98 or older in their networks? It makes no sense to me . These people are just asking for security problems. Being cheap about it just doesn't get it.

Exactly as it has been stated by the others!!

The companies don't have the money or don't want to invest the money. NOt only in software but probably hardware too.

Tough to convince some people to change something that 'works'.

As a repair technician, you can always make the distinction you only service systems that are 'current' or will service them until they break beyond resonible service repair (you may lose business too, its a trade-off....the ones I've seen using it, just don't have a lot of need to have a fancy calculator at their desk so they keep what they have with the occassionaly replaced PS, HDD or Atapi device.