The "point" from a business stand point should be to make money. Why would you release anything specifically targeting some tiny demographic of the overall consumer base unless you have exhausted all other higher potential income streams and the projected profits will be less than the cost of production?

Windows is clearly the most widely used desktop operating system and therefore should be the top priority for a desktop client.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems

As far as safety goes, the end user can secure a windows OS machine just as well as anything else. The tools and information are all out there. If someone has their computer hacked or bitcoin/information stolen, it is likely the fault of the user and not the operating system.

Hold'em Manager 2

Got SWC working on HM2

July 17th Update:

Added Dealer's Choice tables - Dealer's Choice is available in two formats NL/PL and Stud (Razz, Stud, Stud Hi/Lo), select which game you want to play when you are on the button.

Changes to Open Face Chinese Pineapple - Requirements to enter Fantasyland in Open Face Chinese Pineapple have been changed to KK+.

Added 100b No Limit 2-7 Single Draw Tuesday Nights at 9PM EST

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Added On Demand tournaments as well as Double Or Nothing SNG's

We have ironed out most of the bugs, if you haven't tried it again recently you should give it another shot and see if you can get it working.

We will definitely be offering GridPoker on Mac and Mobile clients but that is stilll a ways out.

A lot of people have mentioned that Grid works flawlessly using Parallels. iirc, some mentioned that they had it running using crossover. Although, I've had very limited success with wine I know at least a couple of users have mentioned they had it running in wine.

I hope this helps and we will keep people informed as we move along in the development process for other OS and platforms.

Still not running around the clock but at one point today had around 5 tables running, 3 NL, 1 OFC/p and a 2-7 TD so it's picking up.

Come try out the new Ring Game Ticket Freerolls, Next one starts in 30 minutes. If you miss this one you can find one a couple hours away most of the time.

Ring Game Ticket information is available here: http://www.gridpoker.eu/ring_game_tickets.asp

Freeroll every hour on the hour.

Let's do this.

Why not add re-entry for 15 minutes as well?

There is another H.O.R.S.E. freeroll tonight, would be awesome if you went back to back on taking it down.
As for traffic, there has been an increase in players and we expect to see that number grow going into April.
Stay tuned for a new round of Freerolls and Promos coming in April.

Changes to .1BTC Daily Freeroll

We've received numerous requests to change the time on the freeroll to better serve Non-US timezone players. Staggering the times on the freeroll resulted a bit confusing for some players and caused for a lot of players to miss the freeroll. We decided it would be best to break up the freeroll into 3 to 5 daily freerolls which will run at the same time every day and will hopefully allow for Non-US players to get in the action.

We've also introduced a variety of games into the freeroll such as H.O.R.S.E., Heads Up Shootouts, and more.

Today 3/17/2014 the freeroll has been broken down into three seperate freerolls.

6:30PM     EST 200b Limit HORSE
8:30PM     EST 200b No Limit Holdem Heads Up Shootout
10:30PM   EST 600b No Limit Holdem

Note : These are not the final times for the freerolls. Since we added them on late notice we left enough time between announcing them and start time for people to sign up. Times will be adjusted throughout the week.

Added 52.50b Daily HORSE tournament at 9PM EST.

With that GridPoker has become the first site to offer bitcoin HORSE tournaments.
If you would like to see any other mixed or draw game varieties added to the schedule please request them.

Chat update:

• You can now post click-able links in both lobby and table chat.
• You can now use smileys, animation, as well as some graphics in chat.
• Chat filters have been implemented.

Definitely planned but no time frame for it yet.

As for draw games, There are about three players who stick to the triple draw tables and one player that plays a lot of NL single draw when he can get action.