Sometimes at Unity we’re thinking “we should drop support for some old OSes, it’s a pain to keep support for them”. So I’m doing a totally informal poll.
What if: Unity 3.5 would drop support for Windows 2000, OS X 10.3.9, OS X 10.4.x, and all PowerPC Macs? Each of those is less than 0.1% of the web player market based on our current stats.
(for reference, upcoming Flash 11 won’t support Windows 2000 either; and on OS X 10.6 will be minimum)
So to be clear, you’re suggesting Windows XP and OS X 10.5 will be the new minimum OS’s in the future? Sounds fine to me.
Why trouble you and us by supporting totally outdated OSes and thus preventing Unity to move forward… or at least to move forward faster ;)…
Dropping them would sacrifice a few people using these OSes while keeping them would negatively affect the vast majority of the user base ^^.
Nobody in the world with any sense except the stuffiest possible business will use them. Serious indies wanting every last drop from an old machine know not to touch unity.
Imagine the resources you would have not supporting those.
You don’t know the power of the dark side
Wait wait wait. You guys go through the trouble of supporting OSes that only take up 0.4% of the market. Probably on computers that are a decade old and can’t even run a decent game?.. Why do you even ask lol.
If a browser has less than 0.5% market share or equal to visitor demographics I always convince the client to drop support unless it is a new browser just beginning to gain traction, e.g. Safari mobile in 2007. Only time I cannot talk them around is when they consider they cannot possibly exclude their ancient grandmother and her even more ancient AOL browser running on Windows 95. Drop the old browsers. Most desktop games from the casual companies do not even support anything older than XP. I don’t think the new Flash even runs on anything older than XP but don’t quote me on that. 
Yupp get rid of them. Interestingly I missed this poll but instinctively added it as addon on the gpu dropping poll feedback hehe 
I’m not familiar with OSX pre-Snow Leopard but anything pre-XP is pretty ancient. Even XP diehards sound old to me these days.
Windows XP’s marketshare is around 38% as of August 2011. Doesn’t sound like a small demographic to me.
Even here at work we use XP SP3, anythig older than that (XP) is too old, drop!
Yes, it is right to drop old systems that are tiny percentages of the market. Thank you for asking first.
There is really no need to keep them. PowerPC computers really are outdated. They run up to Leopard, but work best with tiger, which itself is outdated. I say move forward. Did Japan keep feudalism just because a few samurais didn’t want to give up their swords? Or did they go full steam ahead and industrialize the county?
… it’s time to let go… U____U
good to get rid of them =)
I trying to imagine a unity game running on win 2k regardless of whether or not you support it!
I thought we’d be talking about when to drop XP! (Yes it’s still a viable platform ATM).
Never!
Why are the other voters not speaking up? do they just mash voting options and wander off randomly?
hop hop bye bye prehistoric OS XDD…well no regret either for me if this happens…
And say what? The vote I cast pretty much says all I need to say on the subject matter.
I say drop them all its not whorth it.