By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News ServiceMicrosoft warned Friday that customers face security risks if they use some of its aging operating systems after it ends support for them next month.
The systems affected are Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition and Windows Millennium Edition. Support will end on July 11, the next date for Microsoft's monthly security patches and software updates.
Security updates will also end, a posting on the Microsoft Security Response Center said. The blog posting is available at »
blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2···300.aspx.
Microsoft said it wasn't feasible to make extensive changes to Windows Explorer to eliminate a security vulnerability since the underlying architecture of Windows 2000 is much less robust, wrote Christopher Budd, a program manager with Microsoft's security response center.
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