Recently, I didn't see anyone testing our product on Windows 2000, at least as I know active QA are not doing any testing against this platform, therefore can we say we have no former testing on this platform. And if any user report a Win2K special issue, what's priority to us to fix it?
2012/9/28 Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> > On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Keith N. McKenna > <keith.mcke...@comcast.net> wrote: > > Greetings All; > > > > I was going through FAQ's and other pages on the AOO (incubating) site > and > > noticed that many still are showing that we support Windows 2000 as a > > baseline operating system. I though I remembered some discussions a while > > back on this list around that subject and thought we had decided that we > > would no longer do that due to lack of testing resources. > > > > I went back through the archives and did find a number of threads but > they > > never seemed to reach a definite conclusion. I we are going to continue > to > > support it all well and good, but if we cannot then all FAQ's and other > > documentation on the site should change to reflect that. > > > > > 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. > > 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 > > > -- Thanks & Best Regards, Yan Ji
