A yau, 25 ga Yuni, Windows 98 yana shekara 20. Maganar kai tsaye ta tatsuniyar "Windows casa'in da biyar" ta fara aiki tsawon shekara takwas - tallafin hukumarta ya tsaya ne kawai a watan Yulin 2006.
Sanarwar Windows 98, wanda aka watsa ta kai tsaye a talabijin ta Amurka, ta mamaye aukuwar mummunan kuskure a komputa na demo, amma a nan gaba wannan bai hana OS yadawa ba. A bisa hukuma, don amfani da Windows 98, PC wanda ke da processor ba shi da lalacewa fiye da Intel 486DX da 16 MB na ƙwaƙwalwar ajiya ana buƙatar, amma a zahiri, saurin tsarin aiki akan wannan tsarin ya bar yawancin abin da ake so. Babban fasali na sabuwar OS idan aka kwatanta da wanda ya riga shi shine yiwuwar sabuntawar kan layi ta hanyar Sabuntawar Windows, kasancewar sabon mai binciken Intanet wanda aka riga aka shigar da kuma goyan baya ga motar AGP.
Windows 98 aka maye gurbinsa da Windows ME a shekarar 2000, wanda ya zama bai zama mai nasara sosai ba, wanda shine dalilin da ya sa yawancin masu amfani suka zabi ba sabuntawa.
