Ask HN: Why doesn't Google release Chrome for Windows 2K?

1 pointgrandalf6 comments

It would seem that doing so would offer significant competitive advantage to Google:

1) it would allow lots of people with low end hardware to be able to run a very fast, standards compliant browser on the Windows platform.

2) it would put pressure on MS to backport IE9, and if MS did so it would hurt Windows sales.

3) Win2K lacks the same level of copy protection as newer versions of Windows, and is very widespread in the 3rd world.

So does anyone have any speculation (or first hand knowledge) about why this hasn't happened?