Hi,
On 27.09.2012 23:50, Rob Weir wrote:
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Keith N. McKenna
<keith.mcke...@comcast.net> wrote:
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Ah, I just had an idea. Google Analytics tells us how many users are
running Windows 2000. It gets that info from the browser agent header
in the HTTP requests. If I look at all website visits since AOO 3.4.0
was released the breakdown for Windows users is:
7 58.83%
XP 29.74%
Vista 10.31%
NT 0.62%
Server 2003 0.36%
2000 0.13%
98 0.01%
ME 0.00%
CE 0.00%
(not set) 0.00%
95 0.00%
So, 0.13% are running Windows 2000.
With that numbers I would propose to drop everything below 1%. We are
lucky, we do not need to *guess*, we have numbers. Thanks, Rob!
We have limited ressources and everything we try to keep alive costs
some of these (even if not always recognized, see binfilter discussions).
With limited ressources keeping this means to evtl. not do things which
would serve the other 99% better.
Drop it.
Just my 2 ct...
When thinking of whether we "support" a platform or not, a question
to consider: If a serious security flaw were found tomorrow that only
impacted AOO 3.4.1 running on Windows 2000, would we drop everything
to develop a patch?
If not, then we don't really "support" a platform. IMHO we need to be
careful about how we put our name, brand and reputation behind the
word "support". If it means something at all it means that if we
screw up the brand is hurt. So we should only claim support for
things that we are confident of.
-Rob
Regards
Keith
Sincerely,
Armin
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ALG
