full-disclosure - 70 million computers are using Windows 98 right now

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Date: Thu Jul 13 14:11:36 2006
From: tonnerre.lombard at sygroup.ch (Tonnerre Lombard)
Subject: 70 million computers are using Windows 98
	right now

Salut,

On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 18:42 +0100, n3td3v wrote:
> Microsoft could collapse under its own weight if a *major* unpatched
> Microsoft Windows 98 vulnerability comes along.

This is illusionary. Windows NT 4.0 was much more important as a
product, and not much after support stopped, the whole thing cracked
open wide and Microsoft is still there and all well.

A few companies list a lot of equipment, but well. Why should Microsoft
be affected at all?

Anyway.

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