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#62390 02/12/03 02:46 PM
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general reply to the whole OS aspect of this:

here's a question for you people - how long was 16bit supported before khaled made it 32bit only? How long was win3.x decomishioned before this happened? Im simply asking to look at certain aspects of the past (relating to mirc) when talking about OSes. As has been stated, win95 is old and while not the latest & greatest, there are reasons for people to use it.


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#62391 02/12/03 03:18 PM
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whoa!

Seems to got a little off the point, i was only after some nicer looking icons :tongue:

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oh I know, but I was relating that question to the "not everybody uses XP" argument for having better icons etc etc and asking a question more to the point of Im sick of seeing "jsut upgrade and be done with it already" type of reply. Sure I replied to YOU, but it was a general statement rather than a shot at you smile If you took it that way, then my apologies and offerings of cookies (not PB cookies tho, ParaBrat has a private stash of em LOL) smile


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#62393 02/12/03 08:33 PM
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well ... "just upgrade..." screw you. i will not upgrade to XP, XP pro, or LH. i will keep 2k pro. kthx.


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#62394 02/12/03 08:36 PM
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lol "screw you" Perhaps if developers also said "screw you" and started developing software without worrying about supporting 10+ year old OS's things would go quicker and we wouldnt be having this thread


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#62395 02/12/03 10:41 PM
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Maybe things would go even slower, as the reasons for people not uploading wouldn't change just because the programmers decided to not consider them :tongue:


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#62396 02/12/03 10:59 PM
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that depends on he level of development. If all developers did it eventually there would be little to no software that caters to lesser builds. The actual point i was making is that most users who refuse to upgrade for reasons such as "i dont like the color" expect software to be catered to them. they dont want developers to exclude them when writing thier projects however its ok to exclude the users who have upgraded. In the case of the icons its possible to have the best of both worlds here but alot of features simply werent available or requireed mounds of additional code to achieve with older versions.

alot of user want the common controls integrated but forget to take into account that many of the features they provide are dependant on the IE version installed (MDX listview for example). Adding them to mIRC would indeed impose this restriction but we shouldnt leave it out simply because users of older builds wouldnt be able to take full advantage of all options/features. This would limit those who could.


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#62397 02/12/03 11:49 PM
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Yeah you're right, I didn't include those who don't want to upgrade only because they don't like the colours or something like that.


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#62398 03/12/03 02:36 AM
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I think it is a good Idea but who cares about that? I mean... as long as the program runs properly, people, (including me) could care less about an Icon. :tongue:


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