Den tirsdag den 30. august 2016 kl. 00.18.24 UTC+2 skrev John Larkin:
if the number of XP users isn't high enough to justify maintaining an XP version what would expect them to do?
it'll probably continues to work, they just won't be wasting time testing it
-Lasse
Thanks for letting me know. Now they are for s*it in Win2K and XP. Wait about 5 years and they will lock out Win7 also.
One does not have to "maintain" an XP version; simply do not F*CK with the original code and you are supporting everyone!
Alas, the work-for-hire community wants to have the latest and greatest machines: they don't have an XP box in the building. Also, they're intoxicated by new libraries full of almost-debugged softwares.
Hardware, OS, languages, runtime libraries all have version problems. To deal with it, the late compatibility solution is HTML5; before that it was Java, and before that Pascal, and before that Algol, and before that APL and FORTRAN.
But there are always cracks in the compatibility, sooner or later. Cloud solutions like Dropbox are the worst: you can't keep an old machine running for compatibility, the gremlins are fortified and hidden and distant.
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