Ansi vs Unicode API

[Bill Baxter]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 5:20 AM, Trass3r <mrmocool at gmx.de> wrote:
> Max Samukha schrieb:
>>
>> You so readily abandon support for Mac OS X 10.5 but keep catering for
>> the convenience of users of the outdated Windows 9x. Don't you see
>> anything wrong with this approach?
>
> OWNED.
> There's no point in supporting Win9x. Win98 support is already dropped by M$
> (maybe even WinME as well already?) and you really can't use ME anymore,
> it's much too error prone.
>

The OS may not be "supported" in the sense of being able to get
technical support, but you can still build programs that run on Win98
using Visual Studio 2010.

I think the big difference here is that Microsoft takes backwards
compatibility very seriously, Apple, apparently, doesn't.  So I don't
see anything wrong with DMD taking support for older platforms more
seriously on Windows than on Mac.

--bb