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In the case of not owning a PC yourself, might be very useful, but only if the PC they use it on actually can work with the software provided.
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Having an older OS means several options: upgrade OS (and that possibly means upgrading the PC as well Use older versions of applications or switch to a light Linux variant to keep the PC usable. Whatever the reasons may be, they could be stuck with it for some time to come. But it's important to understand that many of the win 9x users do use Win 9x for a reason, maybe they don't own a fast machine or perhaps they don't have access to a computer of their own and are dependent on public computers in remote areas. Especially when the Win 9x user base is marginal. This is the big reason for software to abandon older platforms. That major applications have abandoned Windows 8x support is understandable due to the problems maintaining compatibility for multiple platforms is costly (in development time and support). The % of users online using Windows 9x fell by 60% in the last 12 months. And there are approx 4.4 million people online using Windows 98 (assuming the stats are right and 1.3 billion people are online). having Windows 9x support has been a bit distinguishing for us in talking with hardware vendors in some markets as no one else supports it. And I can probably swing handling it for the other platform devs once we finally get rolling on team development so they're not stuck with the bill. This would cost about ~$800 per license, though. And a bunch of great advancements in Delphi and supporting better XP and Vista stuff. And built-in PNG support (possibly with alpha to outside windows and the desktop).
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This would give us full Unicode support across the board in the platform. We could switch to Unicode NSIS which would allow our launchers and installers to display in any language on any system but no longer work on Windows 95/98/Me. This would allow us to continue working on Windows 9x but remain unable to support Unicode-only languages and cause issues with certain languages in the installer, launcher and menu displaying on some systems.
So what are our options? Well, we could continue to package our apps using NSIS and base the platform on Delphi 2006. Does it make much sense to bill ourselves as running on Windows 9x when the only elements of the Suite that will work on it is the antivirus scanner, music player, password manager and games? I'm thinking the answer is no. So, where does that leave us? Well, it makes little sense to say we support Windows 95/98/Me now that nearly all of our base applications are unable to run on those aging operating systems. And Thunderbird will drop Win9x support with the 3.0 release next quarter. Firefox 3.0 dropped Win9x support and Firefox 2 has just been officially retired with no further support from Mozilla or from. This year, nearly all major applications across the board have dropped all Windows 9x support. It's also been nice that all of our major apps like Thunderbird, Firefox, Sunbird,, Pidgin, AbiWord, etc all supported Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista up until now. These both support ANSI only (no Unicode support in either), so it hasn't been much of an issue up until now. We currently use Delphi 2006 for the Menu/Platform and NSIS for the installers and launchers. Modern operating systems including Windows 2000 and up all use Unicode encoding which allows all characters to use the same set and encoding. This means that non-ASCII characters have to be encoded using the proper code page to be able to appear on-screen or be used by most system functions.
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The recent question on whether or not to switch from ANSI to Unicode in the next Notepad++ Portable is actually part of a larger discussion on whether it is worth it to continue supporting Windows 95/98/Me and ANSI.įor the unfamiliar, Windows 95/98/Me use ANSI for character encoding at the system level.
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