Andre Da Costa [Extended64] wrote:
| There was not SP1 for Windows 98, but there was a service update that
| basically gave Windows 98 First Edition users all the technologies that
| were in Windows 98 SE for about $20 on CD or free download.
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|
| || Jupiter Jones [MVP] wrote:
||| SE was not an update for Windows 98.
||| Windows 98 SE was a new version of Windows 98
||| If you wanted Windows 98 SE, then you had to buy it unlike Service
Packs
||| which are free.
||| There is no Service Pack for Windows 98 IIRC.
|||
||| As for when the final version of Vista will be released, see the other
||| posts in this thread.
|||
|||
||| |||| The "final" version will probably be some Service Pack version of
|||| Windows Vista. Windows XP should be getting at least an SP3 version
in
|||| 2007 and perhaps even an SP4 version sometime later.
||||
|||| Windows Vista will either get a number of service packs a la XP or
NT4
|||| .. or Microsoft will not give Vista a long run preferring a new
|||| version of Windows within a couple years or so a la Windows 98 which
|||| only got one real
|||| update (SP1/S.E) and lasted only a couple years before Millennium and
|||| 2000 took over. AFAIK, Microsoft can change course on these things so
|||| who's to say?
||
|| I remember Win98 SP1 and SE coming out at about the same time. Windows
98
|| orig. users could get a copy of SE for a much reduced amount - 20 or 40
|| dollars. The only difference between SP1 and SE was that SE had a
couple
|| extra utilities e.g. ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) and, of course
|| IE5, but that could be downloaded for free and installed on Windows 98
|| orig. anyway. Unless one wanted ICS, there was no real reason to switch
|| to SE because all the updates were available no charge from Microsoft's
|| websites.
||
|| I just meant that the actual "final version" of Vista could be the one
|| they
|| will release to manufacturing in the next few months .. or some service
|| packed version released a few years from now. Microsoft has been known
to
|| change plans. When WinFS etc. is ready they might service pack it in as
|| planned .. or .. change plans and come out with a new version of
Windows.
Don't you remember? You could download the "Windows 98 Service Pack 1"
online or order the "Windows 98 Service Pack 1" disc at no charge [which I
did] .. or order the SE 'upgrade' at low cost - like you said around $20 -
if you were a current user of Windows 98.
SE had a few components that the service pack + downloadable updates
didn't
include such as ICS and firewire .. but not much more. So unless one had a
specific need for those utilities there was not *too* much point in paying
for SE when the service pack and downloads were at no charge. Not that SE
was going to cost the Win98 user much anyway.
http://www.winplanet.com/file/11650.htm
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