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« on: December 03, 2009, 02:41 AM »
Apologies for my spelling on the previous message! I hadn't read thorough it..... I'm not normally that bad!
Try this:
Hi Rekrul,
You make a fairly valid point, but how far back are you expecting this software to work for? You said it was 'universally understood' that if a program did not list its requirements then it would work on 'all' versions... All versions?? What, way back to version 1?
If you are going to try and run a piece of software that was written in the last year or so, it clearly was not written to run on a pc running an 11 year old OS. One would assume it runs on the 'current' populous, with all the latest updates. That to me would be the assumption (but not necessarily correct). But to assume it will work on 'all versions of Windows' I think it wrong.
As a software developer it's neither cost effective nor sometimes even technically possible to write software that works on XP, for example and also runs on 98. They are simply too different.
Cheers.
Try this:
Hi Rekrul,
You make a fairly valid point, but how far back are you expecting this software to work for? You said it was 'universally understood' that if a program did not list its requirements then it would work on 'all' versions... All versions?? What, way back to version 1?
If you are going to try and run a piece of software that was written in the last year or so, it clearly was not written to run on a pc running an 11 year old OS. One would assume it runs on the 'current' populous, with all the latest updates. That to me would be the assumption (but not necessarily correct). But to assume it will work on 'all versions of Windows' I think it wrong.
As a software developer it's neither cost effective nor sometimes even technically possible to write software that works on XP, for example and also runs on 98. They are simply too different.
Cheers.