"Walter Bright" <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:jfhtgm$195l$1...@digitalmars.com... > On 1/22/2012 12:57 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> "Alex Rønne Petersen"<xtzgzo...@gmail.com> wrote in message >> news:jfhppl$121g$1...@digitalmars.com... >>> >>> I see absolutely no reason to support an OS that Microsoft does not >>> support anymore, >> >> I don't think that's a good reason, since XP is still extremely relevent >> despite MS having pulled support. However... > > MS still officially supports XP. Just a couple days ago, I got an > automated update on it from them. I think MS's latest schedule is to > officially abandon it in 2014. > > I think we ought to support things as long as MS officially does. After > that, I'm game at abandoning official support,
I *really* don't think we should be going purely by that. We still need to take into account actual users in the wild. > if for no other reason than not being able to develop/debug/test on those > platforms. That makes no sense at all. *Of course* it's perfectly possible to develop/debug/test on those platforms. Hell, I obtained a copy of 98 and installed it into a VM just last year. I could easily test/etc on that if I wanted to. *THIS* is what's important: 9x has been abandoned by users.
