On Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:46:24 GMT, Matthias Baesken <[email protected]> wrote:

> The IS_WIN2000 macro checks for Windows major version number >= 5, see 
> https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aopenjdk%2Fjdk%20IS_WIN2000&type=code
> but we run for a long time on much higher Windows versions as a minimum.
> So the check is obsolete.
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`IS_WINXP` macro is also obsolete, no java launcher would start on Windows XP. 
Shall we remove it too?

To some extent, `IS_WINVISTA` is also obsolete because it always returns `true`.

If I'm not mistaken, no java launcher would start on Windows Vista now; it may 
still work on Windows 7.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/31676#issuecomment-4810315957

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