Windows 98 Second Edition (SE) is an update to Windows 98, released on May 5, 1999. It includes fixes for many minor issues, improved USB support, and the replacement of Internet Explorer 4.0 with the significantly faster Internet Explorer 5. Also included is Internet Connection Sharing, which allows multiple computers on a LAN to share a single Internet connection through Network Address Translation. Other features in the update include Microsoft NetMeeting 3.0 and integrated support for DVD-ROM drives. The update has been a successful product.[citation needed] However, it was not a free upgrade for Windows 98 (first edition) customers, which was a significant problem because some programs required Windows 98SE.
New and updated features
Among the new features of Windows 98 are better AGP support, functional USB drivers, and support for multiple monitors and WebTV. It also features support for the FAT32 file system, allowing it to support disk partitions larger than the two gigabyte maximum accepted by Windows 95. It is also the first version of Windows to support ACPI. As in later releases of Windows 95, Internet Explorer continues to be integrated into the Windows Explorer interface (a feature called Active Desktop).
New Driver Standards
Windows 98 is the first operating system able to use Windows Driver Model (WDM). This fact was not well known when Windows 98 was released and most hardware producers continued to develop for the older driver standard, VxD. This resulted in the misconception that Windows 98 can use only VxD drivers, but it is not true.
The WDM standard spread years after its release, mostly through Windows 2000 and Windows XP, because these systems were no longer compatible with older VxD standard. Today, even if hardware producers are not developing drivers directly for Windows 98, they still support modern operating systems, which use mostly WDM drivers compatible with Windows 98–based systems.
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