Talk:Win98

JC: audacity-devel message below from Gale of 4th-Dec-09, parked here for now. Should probably work this into the main page in due course.

My take is it would be better to drop the "Unicode" designation as Vaughan suggested, and take no further action until after 2.0. That gives us the option of:

a) Assessing the number/virulence of complaints at that time, when it will be obvious that there is no route from 1.2.6 to 2.0 for Win98/ME

b) Me (Gale) going ahead with a one-off ASCII build anyway, which I already volunteered to do. The uptake of a version that exists will give us more measure of demand than the minority of people who actually complain.

I can give one fact, that 210,000 people have downloaded 1.3.7 ASCII since February from SF and GoogleCode. Unknown how many were on XP or greater and got the wrong version.

Gale: 02Jan10 I'll be monitoring downloads of 1.3.7 Ansi from GoogleCode and SourceForge for the next few months to try and give us some facts to go on.


 * December 2009 - about 21,000 downloads this month from both sources