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Windows 98 - no more patches

  • 11-07-2006 1:07pm
    #1
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,563 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    70 million users can't be wrong can they ? ;)

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5164450.stm

    on another note 98 still needs patches
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/10/software_flaw_prediction/
    Yet, the researchers' predictions have been hit or miss, even with a large margin of error of 25 per cent. A paper released in January 2006 predicted that the number of flaws found in Windows 98 would saturate between 45 and 75; at the time, data from the National Vulnerability Database showed that 66 vulnerabilities had been found, but that number has continued to increase to 91 as of July.

    However, the researchers' prediction for Windows 2000 has apparently been accurate: The current number of vulnerabilities for the operating system is 305, just within the 294-to-490 range given in the computer scientists' paper.


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Ha! I knew I was right to stick with a coal fired OS! :D

    Mike.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,151 ✭✭✭Thomas_S_Hunterson


    Consider a downgrade
    eniac-pm.jpg
    i'd like to see them try to hack than, and it hasn't got a patch in 1000000 years


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