July 11: Microsoft officially announces Windows 98 and Win ME

The software giant has just announced the official "fate-ending" day of Windows 98 and Millenium operating systems. 70 million users will be "helpless" and need to upgrade to newer operating systems, if they want to get technical support from Microsoft.

Source: academic.wsc Since July 11, the two operating systems will be officially removed from the "technical support" dictionary at the Microsoft empire. Although many people already know that Microsoft has stopped supporting Windows 98 and ME for a long time, no one knows when this decision will take effect.

According to the Washington Post, security businesses will also quickly follow Microsoft, stop launching security products and support the two operating systems of the "old" type.

According to Washington Post statistics, there are still 13% of Microsoft customers, ie about 70 million people, using Win98 and ME. Based on the number of vulnerabilities, instability and weak security status of both, they should be taken to "software cemetery" to rest.

The only comfort for users Win98 and ME at the moment is that hackers have more attractive targets to attack, and the fact that these two operating systems are "old" that hackers don't . remember how to break. lock them.

According to SANS's Johannes Ullrich, chief technology officer, the vast majority of malware and malware created today are not compatible with these operating systems. Sometimes, backward is also not not good.