Author: José Carlos
Date: 01:51:15 08/15/02
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On August 14, 2002 at 18:15:01, John Merlino wrote: >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 I know it wasn't your decision, but still I want to stongly disagree with the reasons given. 1) and 4) Many people here (I'm almost sure) would be happy to receive a free beta and run it for several days under win2k. That way your company would know (instead of "having a good possibility") whether it works fine on win2k or not. 2) Win2k professional is largely used by non-business users because it's very stable and works, in general, much better than win98/ME. 3) Zero cost for a particular tester and many people using wink2k prof out there. In my opinion it's a big mistake. I use win2k prof, and I'm not gonna buy a program which is not tested under my OS. Most users will think the same way, so if you get some comments of CM working on win2k, it won't come from people who has bought it, but from pirates, which I don't trust. José C.
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