The days of dial-up internet, AOL Instant Messenger, and Myspace may be over on Earth, but on Mars, the early years of the internet still live on. A Martian spacecraft has been running on software ...

One of the European Space Agency's lowest cost and most successful missions, the Mars Express, is finally receiving a software upgrade. Nineteen years after its launch, the Mars Advanced Radar for ...

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I have three Windows 98 computers, ranging from 166MHz-300MHz. The hard drives are fragmented to hell and need defragmented. 98's built-in defragment software sucks. Everytime I run it, I get ...

Designing, building, and testing a spacecraft isn't cheap — not to mention the cost of launching it and sending it on a journey to another planet. That means once a spacecraft is in place, like the ...

WTF?! There aren't many reasons why an in-use system would still run an OS developed in Windows 98, but here's a good one: it's been traveling through space for the last 19 years. Thankfully, the ...

After almost 20 years, this mission is still going strong, and it's even gaining new capabilities. But to get there, the ESA had to replace the probe's ancient software, which was based on Windows 98.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has finally decided to give the Mars Express probe a software update. It's been running on a 20-year-old operating system all this time, and the organisation figured an ...

Depending on whom you ask, Windows 98 is either the easiest and most stable operating system upgrade yet for personal computers or an exasperating experience that plunges many users into the technical ...

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 ...

From Tuesday, Microsoft will no longer issue security updates or provide support for Windows 98 and Windows ME, which are still being used by more than 50 million people. Eight years after launching ...

Tuesday is D-Day for Windows 98, 98 SE and ME users. After some extensions, Microsoft is finally ending its association with the eight-year-old Windows 98 operating system by dropping all support and ...