Should Behold continue to support Windows 98? - Categorized in: General Discussion

I haven't been on 98 in ages. I wouldn't waste your time (I'm pretty sure that the subject and preposition are mismatched in there). Let's face it, XP has been out sine 2001 or 2002, which makes it 4 years old.

Concentrate on the present and future.

By now, I'm using a desktop (Pentium III 700 Mz) with a dual boot Mandriva / Win98
(I use Win98 to edit some reports with Legacy 5, Heredis, Visuged)
An old laptop Toshiba Port

Maybe I'm just cheap, but I can't see throwing out a paid for operating system when it will do what I need for now. I have XP on one computer for those applications that need it, but I am also running Win98 on the three other computers at my home, because that is all they need. I have updated the hardware when one of them died (a motherboard was the most recent) but the Win 98 still works with the new hardware just fine. I plan on running Win98 on those computers as long as I can, and when I upgrade them I will probably only upgrade them to XP, even though something newer will be out by then, because I will be able to get a better deal on the XP at that time. Probably 2/3 of my genealogical work is done on the Win 98 systems. I can restrict Behold to running only on the XP and survive, but that will limit it's utility and convenience for me. I vote for the Win98 support. I'd say this is my two cents worth, but being as cheap as I am it is probably only a penny's worth.