Do we need Win95/98/Me support?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Walter Bright" <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
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> On 1/22/2012 12:57 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "Alex Rønne Petersen"<xtzgzorex at gmail.com>  wrote in message
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>>>
>>> I see absolutely no reason to support an OS that Microsoft does not
>>> support anymore,
>>
>> I don't think that's a good reason, since XP is still extremely relevent
>> despite MS having pulled support. However...
>
> MS still officially supports XP. Just a couple days ago, I got an 
> automated update on it from them. I think MS's latest schedule is to 
> officially abandon it in 2014.
>
> I think we ought to support things as long as MS officially does. After 
> that, I'm game at abandoning official support,

I *really* don't think we should be going purely by that. We still need to 
take into account actual users in the wild.

> if for no other reason than not being able to develop/debug/test on those 
> platforms.

That makes no sense at all. *Of course* it's perfectly possible to 
develop/debug/test on those platforms. Hell, I obtained a copy of 98 and 
installed it into a VM just last year. I could easily test/etc on that if I 
wanted to.

*THIS* is what's important: 9x has been abandoned by users.