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 ...

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 ...

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Patch management for the latest versions of Windows might the concern of most of us located here on Earth, but meanwhile, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Mars Express spacecraft has received the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Justice Department is considering an antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. involving the new Windows 98 software, officials said Monday. Department investigators issued a new round of civil ...

That was the deal reached Thursday just before a coalition of states — and possibly the Justice Department — were to have filed antitrust charges against Microsoft Corp. Under the agreement, Microsoft ...

Were you around for the heyday of Windows 98? PC gamers were slow to adopt Windows 95 because the conventional game design paradigm of talking directly to the hardware was a big no-no in the new ...