Re: OT;W98 popularity



Jim Yanik wrote:
Can someone tell me why people on Ebay are bidding over $50 USD for
Windows 98SE? (Besides the usual auction fever.)
Why are people willing to pay so much for a really old op system?

Perhaps to save money on retail copies of the OS. For example, the full
version of XP Pro is something like $300 retail, but the upgrade version is
allot less (more than $50 less, but I don't know the exact amount).


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