Windows Operating System (Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition)

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Product:	Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition
Date:	08/07/00 (7 review reads)
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Advantages: Fills a gap

Disadvantages: Catches you with your trousers down sometimes

Everyone needs some kind of operating system and for most of us it's turned out to be Windows.

I think it was a bad decision to bundle Internet Explorer without giving the customer the choice of using it or not...although I'm sure that most people have used it anyway.

With every new release of software from the Microsoft O/S package, more and more of your hard-drive is gobbled up just in running it....

I started life under Windows 95 and seemed to have more than my fair share of problems with it. So when Windows 98 was available I up-graded, (but I wasn't desperate or sad enough to queue up for it on it's first day of release), as many people were, I suppose they felt that they just couldn't live without it...hype, hype...

Generally, 98se just trots along on my P.C and in day to day terms I have ( touch wood ), few problems with it.
Every now and then though, it just has to throw something at you to remind you who's boss, at least in it's opinion.
Sometimes it feels that it has to behave like some badly behaved school boy and it seems to need a slap to bring it into line! Bugs of one sort or another exist in that "just over the horizon" world that only computer experts frequent and where mere mortals fear to tread.

One day ( and I hope it's soon, but fear the worst ), maybe someone will come up with a "user friendly " operating system that the man in the street will be able to understand, that will be flexible enough to do all we want it to do, without the problems inherent with Windows.
When plug and play will mean just that and software problems are a thing of the past. You'd think with all today's technology that this would be just around the corner.

Having said all that I have a lot of hardware on board my PC and it constantly amazes me that it all works together.

The sales of PC's has really blossomed over the last fe
w years and I'm sure that within a very short space of time they will be as popular as the telephone has become even if it means that they'll have to be fully integrated with household items such as the T.V.

However without a better Operating System where are we going?

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