Benjamin Horst wrote:
If someone has a computer that old, they really should switch it to Linux
anyway! :)
I still know some small companies for which Win98SE suffices and they
still have applications hard to run under Linux.
In companies forced to adopt a M$$ license and which have mission
critical applications, Win98 will stay as long as they are not forced to
upgrade. They will not be happy if we drop support especially because
costs are involved.
What I think is important: if at some point ODF specifications evolve,
we should provide add-ons for latest OOo working with Win98 to convert
documents. At least say 2-3 years from now.
~just my 2 eurocents
Best,
Cristian
I think ending support for Windows 98 will have no negative impact on our marketing. In
fact, we could probably spin it to be positive somehow... "our code base is too
modern and dynamic to be compatible with poorly-written, obsolete code like Windows
98..."
-Ben
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On Monday, February 11, 2008, at 11:41AM, "Cor Nouws" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
John McCreesh wrote (11-2-2008 17:34)
How do we feel about this from a Marketing perspective?
Some thoughts:
Not too fine, because I always like to say that one OOo can be used on
any (close to) version of windows. That argument becomes a little less
valid.
OTOH, Win98 is old, and Win98 users can still use OOo 2.4.1, which is
far better than MsO 2000.
And also: focussing on future and spending your resources on that, ís good.
Regards,
Cor
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Original Message
Subject: [releases] Proposal: Drop Win98 support with OOo 3.0
release From: "Martin Hollmichel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon,
February 11, 2008 15:48
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All, since the efforts for supporting Windows98 and WindowsME are
reasonable high and makes maintainability of the code quite hard, I
would like to propose to drop Windows 98/ME support with the release of
OOo 3.0. Windows98 is also not supported by MS anymore and since we also
want to make use of some more advanced features of Vista I think we
should be in favor to support the move to new Windows version and drop
the old ones, Martin
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