Re: Vendors's DUMB question

[Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com>]

So at work (BigFix), we still have a number of customers using NT4 and 
Win9x.  NT4 is still used a lot in our financials vertical, and most of 
them have the contract NT4 patches still from Microsoft.  We also find 
that Win9x is still big in Asia/Pac Rim.  Most of our 9x support 
questions come from there.

Our stuff is systems management software, agent-based.  So while the 
backend is Win2K+, the agents go back to Win95 and NT4.

So far, we've been able to keep a single Windows agent.  We have to take 
care to check OS version, and only load some DLLs at runtime, etc...

The potential upcoming barriers are Vista, which has somewhat changed 
the UI model, and I believe the newest MS compiler is supposed to be 
dropping support for the oldest OSes.

                                        BB
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