On 2019-06-12 12:27-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
On 2019-06-11 17:29-0400 Jim Dishaw wrote:
I think the earliest version of windows we should
support is win7. Keeping XP support will be a challenge.
According to <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP>, XP was introduced in
2001, Microsoft
quit fundamental support for it in 2014, and the percentage of Windows users
who
are still using it has dropped to ~2 per cent as of a few months ago. So
yes, I am fine
with us dropping XP support as well.
I have just discovered my answer above did not go far enough because I
forgot XP was followed by Vista which was followed by Windows 7. From
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista> Vista share of the
Windows market is down to 0.5% while from
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7> the Windows 7 share is still
at 33% with both numbers sampled just a few months ago. So I agree we
should drop support for both XP AND Vista now so that the earliest
version we should support is Windows 7.
Alan
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