Effective August 1, 2008, the World Community Grid technical staff will no longer provide support for Windows 98. We are taking this action because less than 0.03% of all computers on World Community Grid are running on Windows 98 and we feel that our resources need to be focused on supporting existing and new research projects.

If you are running Windows 98 as your operating system, you will still be able to run World Community Grid and contribute to humanitarian research. However, if you have a problem, you should not expect to receive a response to your Windows 98 question from the "Contact Us" mailbox. Assistance in the forums may be available as long as other members continue to respond to Windows 98 questions.

All of the current research projects were tested for Windows 98. Therefore Windows 98 users should be able to continue to run on that platform depending on their specific configuration of software. This means that Windows 98 users should be able to participate in World Community Grid research for at least one more year.

Going forward, none of the new research projects will be certified for Windows 98.

Thank you for your understanding and your continued support of World Community Grid.