Do you still develop apps for < Win 2K?
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Hey guys! do you still bother making your apps compatible with Win95/98/ME? If so, why? Are there still that many people still using those versions? I can't seem to find any good stats on Win95/98/ME usage. Thanks!
Only childrens game developers still target win95/98 (Disney, etc). and they should all be drawn and quartered since most of their cr*p won't run on XP. Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed. Carl Sandburg
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Only childrens game developers still target win95/98 (Disney, etc). and they should all be drawn and quartered since most of their cr*p won't run on XP. Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed. Carl Sandburg
Rob Graham wrote: they should all be drawn and quartered since most of their cr*p won't run on XP. :laugh: That is very accurate though. I've been installing lots of kids games for my 5 year old on my home XP Pro machine, and many of them have startup problems, graphics problems, color problems. PITA.
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Hey guys! do you still bother making your apps compatible with Win95/98/ME? If so, why? Are there still that many people still using those versions? I can't seem to find any good stats on Win95/98/ME usage. Thanks!
We develop for .net so anything that supports .net. Win95 I think is out but 98 and above are ok IIRC.
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Rob Graham wrote: they should all be drawn and quartered since most of their cr*p won't run on XP. :laugh: That is very accurate though. I've been installing lots of kids games for my 5 year old on my home XP Pro machine, and many of them have startup problems, graphics problems, color problems. PITA.
Tech, life, family, faith: Give me a visit. I'm currently blogging about: Horrific Minnesota Radio Judah Himango
Judah Himango wrote: many of them have startup problems, graphics problems, color proble Yeah. And just try and get any tech support. Enough to make you love Dell Bangalore. And do you think they'd put lables on the package telling what OS's they are compatible with? Nothing like trying to explain to a 5 year old why your brand new 2GB memory system 'doesn't have enough memory' to install the new game her Aunt sent... Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed. Carl Sandburg
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Hey guys! do you still bother making your apps compatible with Win95/98/ME? If so, why? Are there still that many people still using those versions? I can't seem to find any good stats on Win95/98/ME usage. Thanks!
We decided recently that we maintain the version 6 of our CMS for < W2K support, but the next version 7 will run on >= W2K only. Get rid of all that unicode/non-unicode handling stuff alone will be great. Not to mention all the other benefits for the programmer and in turn for the customer :-) -- Affordable Windows-based CMS for only 99 €: try www.zeta-producer.com for free!
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Hey guys! do you still bother making your apps compatible with Win95/98/ME? If so, why? Are there still that many people still using those versions? I can't seem to find any good stats on Win95/98/ME usage. Thanks!
Something to ponder: The company I work for provides a hosted PC inventory service (eg, we collect and host hardware/software info and present asset management-type reports), and looking at the aggregate stats for last 3 months or so, we've collected info on about 60,000 PCs (stats will be skewed if we look at data that's significantly older and may not be representative of "today"). Bottom line: roughly 10% are still running some Win9x variation; everything else is on the NT+ line. I don't know how representative this is for your target market, but these stats are compiled from business environments using anywhere from 1 to 5,000+ PCs. The smaller the company (where there is no "company standard" and less corporate red tape to go through to buy a PC), the more likely it is to have more recent OSes. That being said, I'm the sucker who, to this day, still has to maintain the module that gathers the hardware and software information...all the way back to a basic Win95 installation. :doh:
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Only childrens game developers still target win95/98 (Disney, etc). and they should all be drawn and quartered since most of their cr*p won't run on XP. Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed. Carl Sandburg
Rob Graham wrote: Only childrens game developers still target win95/98 Not so. The personal finance software industry (Quicken, MS Money, TurboTax, etc.) also takes great pains to ensure their software will run on Win95 and up. /ravi My new year's resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | Freeware | Music ravib@ravib.com
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Judah Himango wrote: many of them have startup problems, graphics problems, color proble Yeah. And just try and get any tech support. Enough to make you love Dell Bangalore. And do you think they'd put lables on the package telling what OS's they are compatible with? Nothing like trying to explain to a 5 year old why your brand new 2GB memory system 'doesn't have enough memory' to install the new game her Aunt sent... Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed. Carl Sandburg
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Hey guys! do you still bother making your apps compatible with Win95/98/ME? If so, why? Are there still that many people still using those versions? I can't seem to find any good stats on Win95/98/ME usage. Thanks!
quite a lot of our users are still running win9x. they can get winXP licences for a nominal cost (England NHS users, there is a NHS wide licence agreement) but they have to pay for the new hardware to run winXP. so a lot of them are staying put. i don't know the numbers, but i am aware it is an issue. when you have to pay for the upgrades yourself the older OS's can suddenly look more appealing ;) zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
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Hey guys! do you still bother making your apps compatible with Win95/98/ME? If so, why? Are there still that many people still using those versions? I can't seem to find any good stats on Win95/98/ME usage. Thanks!
No. Windows 2000 or later. If you're targetting the consumer market there's a valid reason for enduriong the pain of developing for these OSs, but I'd be surprised if they are significant in the commercial market now. Anna :rose: Riverblade Ltd - Software Consultancy Services Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.
