Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <42A5526F.1090104@hq.astra.ph> Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 15:53:19 +0800 From: Carlo Florendo User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Markku Yli-Pentila Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: One reason not to use win xp (was re: drop win98 support) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Markku Yli-Pentila wrote: >Hello, >I am a blind user using Jaws for Windows 3.3 (that is screenreading >software). Upgrading to newer version of this software is expensive, and I >have no afford to upgrade. My old version doesn't support reading winxp, >but supports reading win98 screens. That was answer to question, why >someone wouldn't want to upgrade to winxp. >regards, Markku > > > No worries, the cygwin project leader already confirmed that Win9x support won't be dropped. In my country, Win 9x is still popular and at home, we've still got win9x boxes which we won't change for the simple reason that they ain't broke. Thanks! Best Regards, Carlo -- Carlo Florendo Astra Philippines Inc. www.astra.ph -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/