PC Novice Windows 98

This was the second of three magazines I bought in either 1998 or 1999. It was a magazine called PC Novice. I googled the topic and found out it had a name change and closed its doors in 2012.

I remember buying this magazine I wanted to learn Windows 98 in depth and this was going to used as a step to get me back into school to learn how to be a computer tech. I already knew how to setup a computer and install software on it. Back in the day when they used diskettes and CD's for everything.

I remember Windows 95 and Windows 98. I liked 98 at the time it was at the time not as likely to crash unlike 95. If you had one virus in 95 you were done. I went through 2 computers with 98 one killed due to lightning the other due to alot of viruses on it courtesy of an ex-wife.

As I thumb through the magazine for the first time in 16 years alot of what Win 98 did back then we still do on Windows XP. I have not dealt with Windows 7 or 8 yet so I can not really say if things have changed that much. The only thing that has really changed since win 98 is that we do not use 3.5 floppy disks anymore.I of course have a stack of them running around and do not use them.

This magazine did keep things in simple English and that was a good thing especially for me who was just really learning Win 98.

Did the world make a big fuss over Windows 98 when Microsoft ended service of it?

That was the main point of this blog. Part of it was meant to be a throwback blog. I had read somewhere recently someone's response to everyone being "sensitive" about Windows XP coming to an end. "Most of the Windows XP computers are either passed on to senior citizens from family and that the rest of us needs to catch up with the 21st century".

My response is unless you used Windows 95 or even better Windows 3.1. Do not complain about us the XP users loving XP. I like Windows 7 and maybe if they work out the bugs in Windows 8 or 8.1 I might like that, when I get my next computer.

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