And those Bulgarians with a good running MacBook from 2007 have the money to buy a new one??? Even in Germany most ones would hesitate for another couple of years to spend such a sum, if the old machine still runs.
Tiemo > > Dropping support for Windows XP would be fairly foolish (while dropping > support for 10.5 and lower will just elicit a tired sigh); > > I don't know about anywhere else, but here in Bulgaria, in the "second world", > almost everybody has a Home PC, as well as a work one, and with the exception > of the Tax Office who run everything on DOS (!!! > I kid you not !!!), something like 80% of the installed base is Windows XP. > > After the fiasco with Vista, an awful lot of people hereabouts don't have the > money to either buy more powerful machines, or upgrade their existing rigs to > cope with Windows 7 or 8. > > Admittedly, in Bulgaria, something like 98% of people who run XP at home use a > pirated version . . and we can moralise for hours to absolutely no effect if > we want to. > ---------------------------------------------------- > > And it cannot be only Bulgaria that is in this situation. > > Richmond. > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
