Re: Dropping support of Windows XP

Pierre Joye wrote:

Nothing forces you to update to 5.5. 5.4 supports XP and 2003 and will do for its full life (3 years). Both XP and 2k3 are not supported anymore by Microsoft, this is the right time to reduce our workload and improve the core by supporting less than 10 years old Windows versions.

It is still worth remembering that Windows 7 is the only 'acceptable' version of Windows since XP and Microsoft have acknowledged that vista simply does not work for many corporate sites. It is for that reason they have had to extend support of XP, and our current problems with Windows 7 and now 8 is that it does not support 'set-top' type hardware well. Switching to embedded versions of windows is another expense that can be avoided by the use of XP even today! XP licenses are still available today! So all that we are looking for is a stable 'LTS' for XP systems, rather than pulling the plug too early as happened with PHP5.2 ... still a previously stable point for many current installations. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk