Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition Upgrade

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Summary: pretty nice
Review: i just upgraded to windows 98 SE from Windows 95 OSR 2.5, and must say its pretty stable! usually after installing a bunch of software and windows would just give me grief. after formating my harddrive and installing windows 98 SE and installing all my old programs i havent had a problem since. Although its great Windows ME has already been realeased so for the price Id go for that Since its newer and has some more stuff with it. But windows 98 sE is great!

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Summary: Freeze up 98; Second edition.
Review: This product is great; if you want your computer to freeze up every 5 seconds.

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Summary: Very stable and very easy install.
Review: I read through the presious reviews and found they fall into two groups. The first group is Microsoft hate mail. The second group consists of honest reviews. If you remove the hate mail from the overall star ranking you'll find that Win98SE gets about 4.5 stars. I installed this as an upgrade to Win95. The install went perfectly. The computer almost never crashes. In fact, about the only time I reboot if is when I shut it down because of a lightning storm. I find this OS faster than WIn95 and more stable. It also has a lot of nice features such as baing able to reorder and move start menu items with out openning explorer to do it. My system is modest by todays standards (AMD K6-2/350 and 96 MB ram). I highly recommend Win98SE. I think that anyone that gives it an honest review will say the same. Ignore that hate mail. Give your PC a boost.

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Summary: from a compu-dummy
Review: I am 54 yrs old and have avoided computers all my life because I didn't think I could ever learn to use one. I had an opportunity to play witha friends PC which had Windows 98 on it. It was wonderfully easy. In a few minutes I was clicking right along. It couldn't have been more user friendly. This PC has since been updated to Windows 98 SE and then fun and ease of use is even better. It's an old PC and hasn't crashed once since this program was put on. I highly recommend it to everyone for ease of installation and smoothness of running. Lots of sofware available to shake hands with it too. Keep computing.

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Summary: Pretty good for a Microsoft product.
Review: Ever since Win 3.1 became obsolete, I've been complaining bitterly about how '95 and the first version of '98 have been so unstable, have more lock-ups, software conflicts, blue-screens of death and many other problems. Win 98 second edition seems to have plugged most of the holes in that particular dam, and I've had a lot less headaches. It also offers a few new features that enable password/text memory and some other little goodies that made the second edition a better deal. Between this O/S and Microsoft Office 2000, my world has been pretty stable, and I'm breathing a sigh of relief!

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Summary: Keep your money!!!
Review: WIN98 SE is only a service pack, with added CAB files and proprietary drivers. It serves ONE purpose, Microsofts ugly lust for more and more money. Since anything you add to your computer comes with newer drivers, and the attempts to patch WIN98 B have only injected more bugs into third party software it's a waste of money and time. Also NT will not support any added hardware but is safe from invasion, so 2000 was created for more versatility with that security. Home users do not want 2000, its security features are detrimental. I needed to correct the mis-info of some other posts.

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Summary: pretty good
Review: more features than 95, pretty good os.

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Summary: Good, but not that good.
Review: Windows 98 Second Edition Upgrade is good for a few things but its not that much different than Windows 95. Mostly Windows 98 is more for home users, not business use in my opinion. I'd wait for Windows ME to come out than purchase Windows 98 Second Edition.

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Summary: What can I say it works?
Review: This Windows stuff worked for me before the upgrade. It seems to work just the same after the upgrade. However I have a nagging feeling that it is slowing down more each day. I also have Linux on the same disk with no effect one way or another. I just use this stuff at home to keep up with it. At work we use NT's which is just different and then the same. I personally use UNIX (not Linux) for anything important. Any way this is a review of the upgrade and all I can say is it went right in and works. The four stars are because I still suspect the upgrade of progressively slowing the system.

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Summary: Compared to Win 95, this is utopia!
Review: Being an old time computer user, i.e., DOS, I must say that I was very impressed with win 98-second edition. Unlike its predecessor Windows 95, it does not shut down or have as many glitches. In fact, I could not see myself using another operating system since windows is so carefree. Why should I have to know my drivers and graphic cards, i.e., Linux? No, I want simplicity and ease of use and all of this I get with Windows 98. I cannot wait for Windows ME.