Author: John Merlino
Date: 15:15:01 08/14/02
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On August 14, 2002 at 17:57:25, Sean Mintz wrote: >Any idea why a decision was made to not officially support 2000? A couple of reasons: 1) It is extremely costly to fully test Chessmaster so that it supports a particular version of Windows. It was decided to only support those three based on the estimates of testing costs and tester availability. 2) Vaguely speaking, Windows 2000 and NT are "business" operating systems, and not exactly designed for "the general public". Many Ubi Soft (and other companies) do not support Windows 2000/NT for many of their games, based on this assumption. 3) Perhaps (I'm not really sure) it was determined that, taking 1) into account, the extra cost of testing would not justify the number of units sold to people with Windows 2000/NT. 4) Finally, there is the good possibility that the program will work fine on those systems anyway. If it does, we can say so on the website (with the appropriate caveats, of course). jm
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