I suspect most of my readers are on XP or an alternative operating system, but I know a lot of people still on Windows 98, my parents for one. I may even have a laptop still running 98 myself. Most people haven't upgraded because they simply don't need to - the applications they are using work just fine on the computer they have. And that is OK.
What Microsoft should do, since it no longer will get revenue from Windows 98 anyway, it release the source code so third parties can continue supplying patches. I'm sure there is a market out there for them. As one commenter points out
"If Microsoft refuses to release the code because that would be giving away tradesecrets to their current software; then that will send a very interesting message about how 'new and improved' the current generations of Windows really are."
