# Dumping support for Windows 98 and Windows ME

- Thread: https://externals.io/message/27171
- Original archive: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/27171
- Started by Frank M. Kromann on 2006-12-21T22:20:08+00:00
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## #27171 — Frank M. Kromann — 2006-12-21T22:20:08+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/27171#27171

+1

It might be a good idea to keep the latest build of php4/5, that can run
on these systems, arround for a while so the users can download them.

- Frank

> 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.
> 
> Andi

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## #27172 — Andi Gutmans — 2006-12-22T00:14:59+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/27171#27172 · In reply to: #27171

Yep, they are available at http://museum.php.net/
We might want to put a more prominent link on
http://www.php.net/downloads.php to that page w/ an explanation.

Andi

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank M. Kromann [mailto:frank@kromann.info] 
> Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 2:20 PM
> To: Andi Gutmans
> Cc: 'PHP internals'
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Dumping support for Windows 98 andWindows ME
> 
> +1
> 
> It might be a good idea to keep the latest build of php4/5, 
> that can run on these systems, arround for a while so the 
> users can download them.
> 
> - Frank
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