Florian Effenberger wrote (13-2-2008 10:17)
Hi John,
"OpenOffice.org 2.4 will be the last version of OpenOffice.org for
Microsoft Windows 98 and Me. As these versions of Windows are no
longer supported by Microsoft, it is becoming impractical to make sure
they will support all the new feature
Hi John,
"OpenOffice.org 2.4 will be the last version of OpenOffice.org for
Microsoft Windows 98 and Me. As these versions of Windows are no longer
supported by Microsoft, it is becoming impractical to make sure they
will support all the new features planned for OpenOffice.org 3.0 and
beyond.
Thank you all for your contributions to this discussion. I will go back
to Engineering and say that the MP has no objection to their proposal. I
am confident they did not make this proposal lightly, and would not have
suggested dropping support without serious reason.
I suggest we start the co
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:34:14 -0600, Florian Effenberger
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
Could you, please, elaborate?
I'm no developer, but keeping code for a 10 year old, ugly operating
system consumes a lot of time. If we want to reach a more modern code
and architecture, we should dr
Hi,
Could you, please, elaborate?
I'm no developer, but keeping code for a 10 year old, ugly operating
system consumes a lot of time. If we want to reach a more modern code
and architecture, we should drop support for it.
Florian
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>This is not bad, it helps us keeping our code clean and smooth.
Could you, please, elaborate?
Thanks.
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Hi,
I personally don't think that it is worth the efforts to maintain Win98
compatibility. I'm all in favor of keeping 2.x as the last Win98/WinMe
version, providing only security bugfixes as we do with 1.1.5.
This is not bad, it helps us keeping our code clean and smooth.
Florian
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Hi John, All,
I must support the request from Charles Schultz for more information
from the Martin (and the releases list) for more information on the
technical challenges of further support for OOo on Windows 98.
I personally believe that ongoing Windows 98 support is important from a
marketing
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From: Cor Nouws <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 11:37:35 PM
>Kirill Palagin (Y) wrote (11-2-2008 20:54)
>> I would bet money nothing will be backported, so our users will miss
>> some long awaited features and start moving to supported platforms,
>>
Benjamin Horst wrote (11-2-2008 21:00)
The following link is worth a read to help inform this discussion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_desktop_operating_systems
Windows 98 usage share estimates range from 0.66% to 1.39% (for
various surveys from mid-2007 to Feb. 2008):
Well, th
Kirill Palagin (Y) wrote (11-2-2008 20:54)
I would bet money nothing will be backported, so our users will miss
some long awaited features and start moving to supported platforms,
including new versions of Windows. So if we stop supporting Win98 we
will drive sales for MS. I sure do not want that
The following link is worth a read to help inform this discussion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_desktop_operating_systems
Windows 98 usage share estimates range from 0.66% to 1.39% (for various surveys
from mid-2007 to Feb. 2008):
-Ben
OpenOffice and open source blog:
http:
I would bet money nothing will be backported, so our users will miss some long
awaited features and start moving to supported platforms, including new
versions of Windows.
So if we stop supporting Win98 we will drive sales for MS. I sure do not want
that.
IMO, unless supporting Win98 really req
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> From: Cristian Driga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 2:07 PM
> To: dev@marketing.openoffice.org
> Subject: Re: [marketing] Proposal: Drop Win98 support with OOo 3.0 release
>
> Benjamin Horst wrote:
> > If someone has a com
Hi Benjamin,
Benjamin Horst wrote:
Cristian,
You are right that some companies and individuals are still on Windows 98 by necessity.
One advantage the OOo community has (as does any FOSS community), is that older
versions of OOo will still be available alongside the latest. So for users who
Cristian,
You are right that some companies and individuals are still on Windows 98 by
necessity.
One advantage the OOo community has (as does any FOSS community), is that older
versions of OOo will still be available alongside the latest. So for users who
cannot run 3.0, they'll still be abl
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
Hi,
Le 11 févr. 08 à 17:34, John McCreesh a écrit :
How do we feel aout this from a Marketing perspective?
from that perpective only, I think it would be unreasonnable. I think
MS Win98 market share is still higher than Vista or at least comparable.
So we should not drop our support of the
If someone has a computer that old, they really should switch it to Linux
anyway! :)
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 p
Hi,
How do we feel aout this from a Marketing perspective?
I see no problems with abandoning '98 support. '98 and Me are way out of
date and are not being used widely anymore.
Florian
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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 us
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> Subject: [marketing] Proposal: Drop Win98 support with OOo 3.0 release
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> How do we feel aout this from a Marketing perspective?
>
> Thanks - John
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> John McCreesh
> Marketing Project Lead
> OpenOffice.org
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How do we feel aout this from a Marketing perspective?
Thanks - John
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Marketing Project Lead
OpenOffice.org
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