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Study: Windows 98 traffic bests Windows Phone 7

Windows 98 may have been retired long ago by the vast majority of users, but the operating system is still driving more traffic than the nascent Windows Phone 7, according to Web advertising company Chitika.

The ancient Windows operating system--which has about 0.04 percent worldwide OS market share, according to Net Market Share--secured about 0.019 percent of all traffic on Chitika's ad network at the beginning of January. By contrast, Windows Phone 7 captured a little less than 0.010 percent market share.

It gets worse. Chitika found that Windows Phone 7 has 0.44 percent &… Read more

Windows 98 Blue Screen of Death tattoo

Back in the day, it was skulls, snakes and Iron Maiden's undead mascot, Eddie. In the post-heavy-metal Internet era, to express your anguish, malaise, or traumatic childhood, you have to get a tattoo of the Blue Screen of Death on your arm. What better to display your frustration with software and your sense of irony than the text that lets you know you've lost an afternoon's work?

The artist, 23-year-old Sam Rulz of Auckland, New Zealand, has this to say: "Paul's tattoo is based on the Windows 98 error code, which is what you see … Read more