When Should You Stop Support for Software?

Posted by Cliff on Friday January 20, 2006 @02:30PM from the limited-resources-and-hard-decisions dept.

hahafaha asks: "I am currently working on a website for a small organization. We (I am not alone in this) have a beta version ready, and are currently testing the site on browsers. We have tried all of the big browsers (Firefox, IE, opera), as well as other browsers, such as lynx, links, w3m and even NetFront. So, when can one decide that they will stop supporting a system. Obviously, going (for example) down to IE 1 is crazy, but is IE 3 crazy? This is not only relevant to web design but to any programming at all. When, for example, can you say that I will *not* support a certain version of Windows. Can you say that now about Windows 98? How about 95?"

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Re:That completely depends by Mistlefoot · 2006-01-20 16:58 · Score: 0, Flamebait

You design for the military and you want us to feel sympathy for you?

Don't they still pay for things like "the $269 three-in. wrench; the $9,609 antenna hexagon wrench; the $10,630 antenna pulley puller tool" (http://www.webcom.com/ncecd/bp18.html#price)