Sounds like Microsoft is flushing out their Old Technology line that have been morphing from Windows 3. Following the footsteps of Windows 95, that lost life support last year, Windows 98, 98SE and Me[sic] will lose all official support from Micro$oft. Of course, this isn’t set in stone as we have seen M$ being forced to extend the deadline for 95. However, we all know it’s for the best. There have been big improvements that came from the New Technology line and it’s actually worth making the switch.

Tough from my experience, if you’re running a crawler than it’s just better to keep it running the legacy system unless you are interested in switching to Linux.