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Vladimir G'orkin
Minmatar
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Posted - 2006.08.28 16:01:00 -
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Do you know when CCP will stop supporting Windows 2000 and Windows XP?
I am asking this because I do not want to experience the same thing as the people who were running Windows 98 and had 5 days to upgrade.
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Directive
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Posted - 2006.08.28 20:49:00 -
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No idea about Win2000, but XP support will propably stop once Microsoft stops supporting it, eg. few years after SP3. Just my guess though.
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Solbright
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Posted - 2006.08.29 21:09:00 -
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It would have been good to have a 12 month countdown so we could have planned final subscription payment instead of having to ask for a refund.
For those that are still wanting to play Eve, Cedega is usable albeit adding some more bugs to your Eve experience, http://www.transgaming.com/
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evistin
Multiverse Corporation
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Posted - 2006.08.30 10:41:00 -
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Microsoft Support policy is a 5 to 10 year cycle
Win2k is on its last legs of support by microsoft, partly by the early release of WinXP. Win2003 will probably have support to 2013 according to a public annoucement. WinXP will stop having support in 2010 I believe, thats a 7 year support cycle.
Microsoft wants to push people to change to Windows Vista, which I think was planned as a 2 year plan, and that means the end of Win2k support. ------------------- Management and Leadership û The Eve-online Guide |
Mars Nine
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Posted - 2006.09.01 12:44:00 -
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I also got hit by the 5 day warning of the end of support for Win'98. I've wanted to switch to Linux for a long time and the urgency of not being able to play EvE led to the discovery of Cedega (which runs Direct X games in Linux). I'm having some teething problems while familiarising myself with the new OS and have resolved an ADSL modem firmware issue by looking up the solution using my win'98 installation. I hope to be back on EvE within another day or 2. Any further Linux reports I'll post in the Linux threads. |
Xafan
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Posted - 2006.09.01 21:10:00 -
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From what I can tell, 95/98/ME were only dropped because they could not support the new features of EVE. Like Unicode and the new encryption. I'm sure CCP didn't just say "hey, you know. What should just stop supporting 95/98/ME just because". They calculated that the new features were more important then the very few that were still on the old pre-NT kernel (DOS).
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sHERU
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Posted - 2006.09.01 23:35:00 -
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Originally by: Xafan From what I can tell, 95/98/ME were only dropped because they could not support the new features of EVE. Like Unicode and the new encryption. I'm sure CCP didn't just say "hey, you know. What should just stop supporting 95/98/ME just because". They calculated that the new features were more important then the very few that were still on the old pre-NT kernel (DOS).
Not to mention that win9x is not supported by Microsoft anymore, if someone would have found a weakness in win9x that allowed him to cheat in EVE Online then CCP would be powerless. Microsoft would not help because "support has ended" (yes, that does not only mean support ends for the consumer, but also for companies that make software for it)
Dropping win9x support is not meant to be consumer bashing.
But then again, running win9x? Get real...
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Reiisha
Frontier Technologies
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Posted - 2006.09.09 17:15:00 -
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Anyone who can play eve can run WinXP or 2K, that's a simple fact.
WinXP and 2K are a lot more stable and robust than Win9x, given a little adjustment time (IE: Don't install and hope it always works - always turn off all services you won't need after a fresh install). This is something from my own experience, and a lot of others.
Win9x gets progressively more expanded and unstable (95-98-ME) and uses an old code that does not support all the new functions you might need. That's just obvious.
There's no real reason to stick to Win9x. There are hardcore purists that reprogram and tweak win9x so it can do some things the NT windows can, but i'm pretty sure you can count those people on one hand (those who play EVE anyway). For everyone else it's a lot easier to just upgrade.
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