Most of its improvements were cosmetic or designed to improve the user experience, but there were also a handful of features introduced to enhance system functionality and capabilities, including improved USB support and accessibility, as well as support for hardware advancements such as DVD players. Windows 98 is a heavily web-integrated operating system that bears numerous similarities to its predecessor and relies on the HTML language. Like its predecessor, it is a hybrid 16-bit and 32-bit monolithic product with the boot stage based on MS-DOS. It is the successor to Windows 95, and was released to manufacturing on May 15, 1998, and generally to retail on June 25, 1998. Windows 98 is an operating system developed by Microsoft as part of its Windows 9x family of Microsoft Windows operating systems. Windows 98 at the Wayback Machine (archived October 12, 1999) Second Edition ( A) / May 5, 1999 22 years ago ( ) Screenshot of Windows 98, displaying its desktop, taskbar and channel bar
