If they are still on XP, they can still use older builds of Inkscape. People stuck on XP must surely be used to new software not working on their old deprecated OS by now.

On 27 Feb 2017 12:07 a.m., "Miguel Lopez" <reptillia39@...3425...> wrote:
And, there are people who are really reluctant to move beyond Windows
XP, or are stuck with old computers. In a ideal world, if one is to
stick with XP, one would use in a virtual machine in newer computers,
but that's not the world we live in. Dropping the support would be the
right solution for .93 and beyond. There's no reason to use XP other
than legacy gaming or legacy software support.


On 2/26/2017 9:38 AM, Sylvain Chiron wrote:
> Le 26/02/2017 à 01:05, Eduard Braun a écrit :
>> there's only very few
>> cases where people are actually bound to XP for other reasons than
>> convenience.
> I’m not sure of what you mean, but I think many professionals still have
> to use Windows XP because nobody is available/paid/skilled for
> installing something else, e.g. in hospitals (I’ve also heard the case
> about Windows 98).
>
> Hopefully, the people who really need Inkscape 0.93 will be able to
> install a libre OS instead of Windows XP.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Sylvain
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