windows 95/98

[napier1999]

will all windows 95 software work on windows 98? are they the same?

[themctipers]

no all wont work on 95. 

95 and 98 are different

[Mark77]

Basically, yeah, Windows 98 is just an incremental version of Windows 95 with patches and perhaps a few tweaks of the UI.  So software compatibility problems should be minimal to non-existent.

[Drak3]

25 minutes ago, Mark77 said:

Basically, yeah, Windows 98 is just an incremental version of Windows 95 with patches and perhaps a few tweaks of the UI.  So software compatibility problems should be minimal to non-existent.

There is quite a bit of difference between 95 and 98 that can lead to quite a number of compatibility issues.

[Mark77]

31 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

There is quite a bit of difference between 95 and 98 that can lead to quite a number of compatibility issues.

Please elaborate.

[Drak3]

1 minute ago, Mark77 said:

Please elaborate.

Windows 98 was coded for a newer standard of hardware, with a newer kernel revision, and there are a good number of changes in the coding for the GUI.

[kirashi]

26 minutes ago, Mark77 said:

Please elaborate.

Some software had string checks within the initial routine calls that prevented them from starting on Win 98 if coded for Win 95, and vice versa.

Similar things happened when moving to Win XP, which is one reason that the Compatibility tab was added to the Properties Window of Applications.