From: Steve Anderson (steve@prodplay.co.uk)
Date: Wed Aug 06 2003 - 11:28:05 EDT
Hanxue Lee wrote:
> As for Windows NT/2K/XP, I thought Abiword should not have
> any problem running on those platforms? I mean, the 9x family
> is being slowly phased out, so I assume no 9x (and WinME)
> specific libraries are used.
Can't remember if it was in the mission statement for Abiword or for
OpenOffice.org - it may have been OOo - but one of the points raised was
that it was important to still provide office applications to (32-bit)
versions of Windows that M$ have given up supporting. For example,
anything less than Win2K-SP3 (IIRC) can't run the latest version of M$
Office - fine, except I know of people who still use (and are perfectly
happy with) Win95 and Win98.
We shouldn't accept something is obsolete because Redmond tells us it
is, only when we know it's not suitable for doing a given task. My P120
laptop at home runs Win95 and Abiword works perfectly on it, and I'm
pleased about that!
Just my €0.02 worth...
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