Re: Applications developed with VS2005 do not running under Windows 98?

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From: Lau Lei Cheong (leu_lc_at_yehoo.com.hk)
Date: 07/06/04

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    Just want to make additional notes for Frank's comment.

    As a matter of fact, believe it or not, some of our customers are still
    using accounting softwares written by Clipper(i.e.: DOS application).

    I'll agree that to extend the support to DOS is not reasonable as there's
    only little clients running DOS. But for Win9X/WinNT, the situation is not
    the same.

    To my understanding, about more than 60% of computers in companies of Hong
    Kong are still using Win9X because they brought the OEM version(which's
    prize is cheaper) when they bought their computer. If they need to upgrade
    in order to use newest software, they'll more likely to stick with the
    existing solution rather than upgrading unless they need to replace their
    computer. That means if we now try to program anything that do not support
    Win9X, we're making ourselve less competitive than other software firms. So
    what's the point for us software programmers to spend money to buy something
    that will reduce our competitiveness to other competitor?

    For WinNT, the situation is rather obvious. Lots of companies especially
    banks still using them. If we exclude support for WinNT, we maybe missing
    some protential customers.

    "Marc Scheuner [MVP ADSI]" <m.scheuner@inova.SPAMBEGONE.ch> ???
    news:872ae05mp4u8v49p5k1laeiee9a3499th6@4ax.com ???...
    > >It'll be best if Microsoft could extend the support to make our life
    easier.
    >
    > Yes - it would be nice if they still supported MS-DOS 2.x, too ! .....
    > :-))
    >
    > They're not here to make your life easier - they're a company, they
    > want to make money, so they have to stick to the mainstream markets.
    > Win9x is really no longer mainstream, in most commercial environments.
    > Get over it. Upgrade to XP. Yes, it costs money - it'll also save you
    > a lot of grief, time (for support and stuff), and frustration.
    >
    > Marc
    > ================================================================
    > Marc Scheuner May The Source Be With You!
    > Bern, Switzerland m.scheuner(at)inova.ch

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