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 ...

The lovely thing about the x86 architecture is its decades of backwards compatibility, which makes it possible to run 1990s ...

It's only a matter of time before we all upgrade to Windows 11 to go hands-on with the latest features and to ensure our gaming PC is safe from security vulnerabilities. While official support for an ...

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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.

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 ...

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).