The days of dial-up internet, AOL Instant Messenger, and Myspace may be over on Earth, but on Mars, the early years of the internet still live on. A Martian spacecraft has been running on software ...

If you have any interest in retro-computing, you know it can be difficult to round up the last official bug fixes and updates available for early Internet-era versions of Windows like 95, 98, and NT 4 ...

I have three Windows 98 computers, ranging from 166MHz-300MHz. The hard drives are fragmented to hell and need defragmented. 98's built-in defragment software sucks. Everytime I run it, I get ...

WTF?! There aren't many reasons why an in-use system would still run an OS developed in Windows 98, but here's a good one: it's been traveling through space for the last 19 years. Thankfully, the ...

When Microsoft pulls the plug on Windows 98 support next Friday, it will offer a free CD designed to help users "make the most" of the aging operating system, without any further assistance from the ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has finally decided to give the Mars Express probe a software update. It's been running on a 20-year-old operating system all this time, and the organisation figured an ...

After almost 20 years, this mission is still going strong, and it's even gaining new capabilities. But to get there, the ESA had to replace the probe's ancient software, which was based on Windows 98.

One of the European Space Agency's lowest cost and most successful missions, the Mars Express, is finally receiving a software upgrade. Nineteen years after its launch, the Mars Advanced Radar for ...

There's a war going on between Microsoft Corp. and the government over whether the software giant is unfairly forcing Windows 95 customers to use its Internet Explorer 4.0 Web browser. But an ...

Logitech webcam software v1.1 is an upgrade from the QuickCam software and drivers that came with your webcam. Of course for this version we have fixed some important bugs, and the software has a new ...

There are two ways to recover data from an obsolete storage medium. One way is to pull out all the tools in the hacker’s kit — with logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, and bit-banged software in a ...