[Promotion-technology] 70 million users have to upgrade

[David Andrews]

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>http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article796
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>Microsoft names Windows 98 and Millennium execution day
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>70 million users have to upgrade
>By Nick Farrell: Tuesday 04 July 2006, 07:21
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>SOFTWARE giant Microsoft has named the day that Windows 98 and
>Millennium users will no longer have support.
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>On July 11, the two operating systems will have their final breakfast
>before being wiped from Vole's support brain. Although many expected
>Microsoft to stop supporting the quaintly antique software, the date for
>liquidation was uncertain.
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>According to the Washington Post, Security Vendors are also following
>suit and are phasing out support for two operating systems.
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>The paper said that more than 13 per cent of Vole's customers, or 70
>million people, still use the software. Given the fact that it was
>buggy, unstable and fairly weak on security, it is probably better
>shipped off to the software graveyard.
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>The only defence that Win98 and Millennium users now have against attack
>will be the fact that the virus writers are too young to remember how to
>crack it.
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>Johannes Ullrich, chief technology officer for the SANS Internet Storm
>Center told the Post that Windows 98 and ME users already have a measure
>of security through obscurity, because most malicious code created today
>will not run properly on those systems.
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>More here
>http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/4823/53/
>and here.
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/30/AR2006063001587
>.html