USB is becoming common place in the stores. Why bother learning something old, when you may need or want to learn something new. We'll see a proliferation of new TV Tuner cards. Remember, the WaveTop Technology we saw at the HAL-PC General Meeting Show. But I'll go for it anyway.
People buy new PC's requiring tech support versed in their respective feeding and care.
Win98 will have a little more of everything new and a little less of the past. We're coming to the end of an era with Win98. There comes a time when we have to break ranks with backward compatibility of the past. Now appears to be such a time as we move to an NT world. The next millenium, probably.