Linden Lab cuts Second Life support for Windows 2000
Stuck quietly away in a corner of the Second Life grid status notices yesterday was the news that Linden Lab is cutting support for Microsoft's venerable Windows 2000 operating system. This is anticipated to affect approximately one percent of active Second Life users.
Cutting support essentially means that no active compatibility work, development or quality-assurance is done for the platform, which will make viewer software very hit-and-miss on Win2K from here on out. It is reasonable to expect more misses than hits.
Back in July last year, Linden Lab dropped support for Mac Panther 10.3.9, which affected 0.25% of all users.
Our best guess is that the cut in Windows 2000 support is related to the assorted raycasting issues in the 1.22 viewer series, and that this move will bring 1.22 as an official viewer release in the very near future. It is expected that this reduction will improve turnaround times for new versions of the Second Life viewer.
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