(IDG) -- After months of waiting, an endless cycle of beta versions and "release candidates," ongoing legal wrangling, and inescapable hype, it all boils down to a simple question: Does upgrading to ...

Despite the popularity of the IBM PC in the West during the 1980s, it had shortcomings that prevented it from flourishing in the Japanese market, most of all support for the Japanese language. This ...

With the RAM and storage crisis hitting personal computing very hard – along with new software increasingly suffering the effects of metastasizing ‘AI’ – more people than ever are pining for the ‘good ...

The PC-98, a 16/32-bit Japanese personal computer system launched by NEC, boasts an extensive library of games that remain highly regarded even today. Here are some of the top PC-98 games that every ...

Were you around for the heyday of Windows 98? PC gamers were slow to adopt Windows 95 because the conventional game design paradigm of talking directly to the hardware was a big no-no in the new ...

Tuesday is D-Day for Windows 98, 98 SE and ME users. After some extensions, Microsoft is finally ending its association with the eight-year-old Windows 98 operating system by dropping all support and ...

Trying to do a repair install of Windows 98 on a customer's pc i.e. reinstalling on top of what's there already. The install gets as far as checking the disk and then tells me that because there's an ...

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This Windows 98 simulator could take you down memory lane as it relives the classic Microsoft OS in Android devices. FILE PHOTO: Copies of Microsoft's Windows 98 roll down the packaging line at a ...