This fact was not well publicized when Windows 98 was released, and most hardware producers continued to develop drivers for the older VxD driver standard, which Windows 98 also supported. Windows 98 was the first operating system to use the Windows Driver Model (WDM). The Quick Res and Telephony Location Manager Windows 95 PowerToys are integrated. Windows Explorer includes support for compressed CAB files. Windows Explorer in Windows 98, like Windows 95, converts all uppercase filenames to Sentence case for readability purposes however, it also provides an option Allow all uppercase names to display them in their original case. Windows 98 menus and tooltips support slide animation. Title bars of windows and dialog boxes support two-color gradients. Windows 98 had its own separately purchasable Plus! pack called Plus! 98. 3D Pinball is included on the CD-ROM but not installed by default. Windows 98 also integrates shell enhancements, themes and other features from Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95 such as DriveSpace 3, Compression Agent, Dial-Up Networking Server, Dial-Up Scripting Tool and Task Scheduler. Dialog boxes now show up in the Alt-Tab sequence. The Windows 98 shell includes all of the enhancements from Windows Desktop Update, an Internet Explorer 4 component, such as the Quick Launch toolbar, deskbands, Active Desktop, Channels, ability to minimize foreground windows by clicking their button on the taskbar, single click launching, Back and Forward navigation buttons, favorites, and address bar in Windows Explorer, image thumbnails, folder infotips and web view in folders, and folder customization through HTML-based templates. Besides Internet Explorer, many other Internet companion applications are included such as Outlook Express, Windows Address Book, FrontPage Express, Microsoft Chat, Personal Web Server and a Web Publishing Wizard, NetMeeting and NetShow Player (in the original release of Windows 98) which was replaced by Windows Media Player 6.2 in Windows 98 Second Edition. Windows 98 includes Internet Explorer 4.01. Microsoft ended support for Windows 98 on July 11, 2006. Windows 98 was succeeded by Windows 98 Second Edition on May 5, 1999, then by Windows ME (Millennium Edition) on September 14, 2000. Like its predecessor, it is a hybrid 16-bit/32-bit monolithic product with an MS-DOS based boot stage. Windows 98 is the successor to Windows 95. It was released to manufacturing on and to retail on June 25, 1998.
It is the second major release in the Windows 9x line of operating systems. Windows 98 (codenamed Memphis) is a graphical operating system by Microsoft.
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