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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Dumping support for Windows 98 and Windows ME
From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine)

Andi Gutmans wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> In the spirit of dumping Win95 support in PHP 5, I'd like to officialy dump
> Windows 98&ME support from this point onwards. We are sticking to old
> Windows APIs because of this support which doesn't make much sense
> considering that Microsoft has stopped supporting those platforms six months
> ago (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/support/endofsupport.mspx).
> So I see no reason for us to support Micorsoft customers better than they do
> :) Those who are stuck on those versions should just stick to the versions
> up to PHP 5.2.0. They are not getting Windows updates, so why should they
> get PHP updates?
> 
> Unless anyone disagrees with this, we'll go ahead with this.

As someone who still ships W98SE as a server solution on distributed 
systems I would flag that just because Microsoft killed it, there are 
still large areas of the world who have kit that can't suport anything 
better.

That said - as long as a W98 COMPATIBLE version of PHP5 is flagged then 
there should not be a problem. Personally I don't actually run the PHP 
stuff on the W98SE slaves, just just local fallback stuff for when a 
network link fails.

Just quoting for a job that has some 200 machines and that should cover 
the cost of finally ditching the W98SE in favour of Linux anyway :) We 
have to PAY for XP licences even if the hardware will only handle W98SE :(

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