Please release me, let me go.

[Lynn Fredricks]

> The rationale behind dropping support for an out-dated 
> operating system, surely, should not be based on the global 
> installed base of that operating system, but the globally 
> installed base of that operating system who use LiveCode for 
> software development, and the clients to whom they sell/give 
> their standalones for deployment.

LiveCode presents some special conditions.

XP is still the second largest installed base of Windows. A lot of companies
have to continue to support XP (and other older versions of Windows), even
though Microsoft has (almost entirely) dropped it. Sometimes a company is in
a position to force their users to do something they don't want to do, and I
have to say Microsoft is rather kindly in that regard (unlike companies like
Intuit or Adobe...).

Apple really doesn't have to care any more about backwards compatibility.
While they do own both the software and hardware end of the market, they are
no longer really going head to head against "infrastructure" minded Wintel.

Best regards,

Lynn Fredricks
Paradigma Software
http://www.paradigmasoft.com

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