I was participating in an online conference the other day, which was implemented as a Java applet in a browser. Internet Explorer told me I needed the Virtual Machine to be able to run it, so I went to the Windows Update page and totally failed to find it. Have they withdrawn this product completely now, because of lawsuits and/or general pissiness, or am I just looking in the wrong place?
I have IE 5.0, if that makes any difference.
Better get IE 5.5+
handy,
To the best of my knowledge, having 5.5 doesn’t matter. It’s part of Visual Studio or something…I don’t know the innerds of it all but I have downloaded Virtual Machine on Win98 computers many times in the past…specifically with 5.0.
It didn’t work for me because of that wrap problem with long URLs, but I think this is the same place you were pointing to: Microsoft Virtual Machine for Windows 98
[sub](Someday they will fix that long URL problem, I know they will, I just know it.)[/sub]
Jim
techchick was right (and really, is she ever wrong?) It worked fine, even with my 5.0 browser. The link also worked for me. I don’t know why JimB had trouble with it.
I’m not sure why they make it so hard to find, but maybe I was looking for it wrong. I tried the automatic download from the Internet that popped in IE. I also tried the Window’s Update pages and a search of the site. All to no avail. I really wish pages would be coded to use the Java plugin rather than the applet tag. I have no trouble finding the plugin.
Thanks techchick!
No problem Greg.
I have been known to be wrong, or not have all the facts though 
Anyhow, as far as finding stuff on Microsoft’s website, I used to be a reseller (tax license and all) and usually have better luck finding files and such via:
This gives you a better way to access files, just hit the Support site from there then downloads.
I wasn’t taking anything away from techchick. She is right as usual.
The problem I had has to do with the way vB wraps long URLs. It adds a space after about 100 characters. Netscape leaves the space in the URL and the URL doesn’t work. IE translates the space to “%20” and inserts it into the URL. In this case it doesn’t cause a problem, sometimes the extra translated space does cause a problem.
I just found a URL to the same page that techchick referenced that would work with Netscape, too.
Sorry about the sidetrack.
Jim
techchick68, if you update to IE 5.5+, it gives the option to put in fancy things like Java if you don’t have them. That’s why I suggested that answer 
Well handy, had you explained as much in your first post we all might be on the same plain.
'Sides, 5.0 works just fine for many and not everyone has the speed nor the time to spend downloading it. Then again, one could order the CD but what fun is that?