The weight Widows drags from the past is becoming a drag for everyone.

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 ...

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 ...

is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Engineers at the European Space Agency (ESA) are getting ready for a ...

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.

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 ...

With the RAM and storage crisis hitting personal computing very hard – along with new software increasingly suffering the effects of metastasizing ‘AI’ – more people than ever are pining for the ‘good ...

Considering that Windows NT has the concept of so-called ‘subsystems’ whereby you can run different systems side-by-side, starting with the POSIX subsystem and later the Windows Subsystem for Linux ...