I agree with Don.  I didn't patch 95, 98se and so far Me.  And I get along
just fine.  Back in 95 days it seemed like the patches caused more problems
than they fixed.  So I became leery of using them.  I do not have a cable
connection and with the prices just posted by Charter in my area, I
probably won't.  I am running Me and two 98se systems.

Tom

At 12:24 PM 3/27/2002  Wednesday -0700, you wrote:
>Andre writes:
>
><<I recently heard that Microsoft would no longer support Win98se as of june
>2002>>
>
>Does it matter? I've never in my life used Windows Support, running Win
>95B. No patches, no upgrades, the system works exceptionally well. A few
>simple utilities gives it better-than-Win98 functionality.
>
>I think it's when you start monkeying around patching a good system that
>you start running into troubles.
>
>Perhaps security patches are important for those on cable connections, but
>I'd have thought that those would all have been well fixed by now for Win98.
>
>I'm not against upgrading when the time is right, or for those who want to
>live adventurously.
>
>But if your current system does everything you require, and works well, I'd
>stick to it as long as it's feasible to do so.
>
>Have I been missing out on anything of importance over all these years?
>
>Don Penlington
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