On 27.09.2011 22:22, Rob Weir wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton > <dennis.hamil...@acm.org> wrote: >> What is the oldest Windows OS version that Apache OOo 3.4(-dev) will >> be supported on? How does that compare with the oldest Windows OS >> version that the last stable release (3.3.0?) of OpenOffice.org is >> supported on? (If there is a JRE dependency, that is another variant >> to consider.)
AFAIK OOo 3.x Windows baseline is NT 5.0 (Windows 2000); AFAIK this OS version is no longer supported by the vendor. > I'd recommend supporting Windows XP and beyond. XP is officially > supported by Microsoft until April 2014. I'm certainly not making any > effort to maintain or test support for earlier versions. Of course, > that doesn't prevent anyone else from testing and patching to support > earlier versions. no objection from me to raising the baseline to WindowsXP; IMHO trying to support an OS that the vendor doesn't support any more doesn't make sense.
