PortableApps.com Ends Windows 95/98/Me Support
PortableApps.com announced the end of Windows 95/98/Me support in the PortableApps.com Format, Installer, packaged apps and the PortableApps.com Platform.
PortableApps.com 1.6.1 release, scheduled to be released tomorrow, will be the final version of the PortableApps.com Platform/Suite that will support Windows 95/98/Me. The upcoming release of the 2.0 Platform will run on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and future versions of Windows.
PortableApps.com has already dropped support for Windows 9x quite some time ago for their major apps such as Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice.org, Sunbird, GIMP, Pidgin, etc. For the handful of apps that do continue to support Windows 9x, the future portable versions released by PortableApps.com will not function on these unsupported versions of Windows.
Once the 1.6.1 release is posted, PortableApps.com will begin to post the details on the 2.0 updates to the PortableApps.com Format and Installer and begin releasing apps in the new format. Soon after, PortableApps.com will be posting the first Unicode beta of the 2.0 Platform, making our next step into the future of PortableApps.com.
The main reason for this change is to enable full support of Unicode across PortableApps.com entire ecosystem. Unicode allows all languages to be displayed on any Windows PC, regardless of the PC's set language. This will enable a Japanese user to be able to use the platform and all their apps on an English version of Windows while traveling. It will also enable PortableApps.com to properly support Unicode languages like Georgian, Khmer, Pashto, Vietnamese and others that PortableApps.com cannot currently support properly.
Source: PortableApps.com : Ending Windows 95/98/Me Support
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