[Elecraft] How many Windows users are using Windows 98 SE?

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

I certainly don't know of any ... microHAM has left the last version
of Router that supported Win98 hang around on the web site but it
only supports interfaces that had been released at the time that
version was current.  As far as I can tell there haven't been any
downloads of that file in three or four years.  I suspect official
support for XP will be dropped in early 2014 when Microsoft ends
extended support for XP.

I suspect you're safe dropping Win98 support - I would not let that
(or support for 16 bit Windows period) keep me from using the
improved compilers.

73,

    ... Joe, W4TV


On 5/28/2013 5:23 PM, Dick Dievendorff wrote:
> I've been building the various Elecraft utilities (K3 Utility, KX3 Utility,
> P3 Utility, KPA Utility, XG3 Utility, K144XV Utility and XG3 Utility) with a
> 2005-era compiler, because that's the most recent version of the Microsoft
> Visual Studio C++ compiler that generates executables that will run on
> Windows 98 SE.
>
>
> I'd like to move to a more modern compiler, but the resulting code they
> generate will run only on Windows XP and later.  That is, Windows XP,
> Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8.
>
>
>
> Would you be inconvenienced by this change?  I'm hoping there aren't many.
>
>
>
> Please let me know if you need the Windows versions of the Elecraft
> Utilities to run on Windows OS prior to Windows XP, and what OS you have.
>
>
>
> Thanks & 73 de Dick, K6KR
>
>
>
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