Hi Cara, Once again you always seem to cut to the heart of the matter. You hit upon the main reason why I don't want to really support XP if I don't have to.
Although, I am not rich by any sense of the word I do often set aside money for upgrades and try to keep current so that both my technical support and my development skills for Windows are current. Its kind of a business necessity for me. So its not totally by choice that I upgrade and stay current with Windows releases. However, using a virtual machine will not really work out for testing, and I do not own a dedicated XP machine. That computer died about three or four years back and I don't want to pay to replace it seeing as XP is a dead-end technology absolutely of no use to me other than supporting some games for people who don't want to upgrade. So I don't really see any point in supporting XP for me personally as it is just one more expense I could just as well do without. Cheers! On 9/11/13, Cara Quinn <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Charles, though I'm not Thomas I will say that this is part of the issue. > He doesn't completely have a choice in this matter. If he were to develop > for the majority of users who will not update for whatever reason, then he > will be in fact, putting himself in the exact same situation of needing to > run dead-end systems and technologies. > > This also then brings up the issue of Thomas then needing to purchase extra > systems so that he can have a working current system for his own use. > > If someone were paying him to work on these projects and providing him with > appropriate systems, software etc for him to develop on, then this would be > a different story but this is simply not the case. I do not hear of > benefactors stepping up to offer him systems on which to do this work. > > So this becomes a case of Thomas needing to spend a bunch more money to make > up for the masses who will not update. > > Does this make sense and is this something you would do? > > Thanks, > > Cara :) > --- > View my Online Portfolio at: > > http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinn > > Follow me on Twitter! > > https://twitter.com/ModelCara > --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
