Re: Windows 95/98/Me ?

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About two years ago my client base finally dumped the MS-DOS systems as supportable
systems; even the hard-core must-support-win9x client finally gave up worrying about it
and they now require Win2K or above. I decommissioned my last MS-DOS system two years ago
(I only kept it up to support testing for my client base). A lot of these clients are
business-class (rather than high-end-application-class) people who needed to support
laptops, which were the last vestige of MS-DOS, in my experience. Security concerns had
prompted the change internally to Win2K or higher desktops, as well as the normal
processor attrition.

The last industry data I saw corresponds to the earlier quoted figures, with about 25% of
users still using MS-DOS (of which something less than 1% of the total users were using
Me, largely due to serious errors in judgment). But note that in the EU, the percentage
is apparently larger, so it depends on whether or not you have European distribution (the
EU sued Microsoft over their decision to drop all support of Win98 last year, and got it
extended to 2008 or something like that.

One of my clients demands Sever2003 SP2 as the minimum system (due to a major bug fix
that affects their app). So part of it depends on what the value of your product is to
your customers.
joe



On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 12:52:21 -0500, David Wilkinson <no-reply@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Does anybody know of statistics on what fraction of users in various
>categories (say: home, small business, corporate) are still using
>Windows 95, 98 or Me?
>
>And what are most of you MFC developers doing about supporting these
>platforms (no support, unicode compilation with MSLU, ANSI compilation)?
>
>TIA,
>
>David Wilkinson
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