Microsoft kills Windows 98: Great News for Nepali Computing

Every cloud has a silver-lining. The news that Microsoft has decided to put Windows 98 to bed may be sad news for tens of thousands of computer users in Nepal, who have been able to use their computers even in very low resources. But when we are thinking of computing in Nepali language (I mean not just being able to fool the computer to display some devanagari characters while storing the data in ASCII characters but being able to compute in Nepali language 'I repeat'), Windows 98 has been the biggest hurdle.

Here is a link from BBC on the death of Windows 98: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5164450.stm