[Vm-dev] Question | Bump min support from WinXP to Win8

[Ben Coman]

On Wed, 13 May 2020 at 16:38, Stéphane Rollandin <lecteur at zogotounga.net>
wrote:

>
> > We could bump further but Windows 8 looks like a fair improvement in
> > reliability and robustness comparing to its predecessors. And the last
> > update for Windows 8 was only 8 years ago. Not even a decade. :-)
>
> FWIW I am still on Windows 8.1
>
> Stef
>

Whoops.  I was about to say Windows 8 was crap - no one uses it. sorry.

The "good" versions of Windows were XP, 7 and 10.

My work machine is actually still on Windows 7.  It only became end-of-life
at the beginning of this year.
I'd like to upgrade to 10 soon, but there are many 7 installations in the
wild for a coupe more years.
Roughly 200 million PCs worldwide will still be running older Windows
versions, mostly Windows 7.
Here it is by portion.
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-many-pcs-are-still-running-windows-7-today/


So I'd agree XP definitely should be dumped, but settling on Win 8 seems
pointless.
Either also keep Win 7
or also dump Win 8 and jump all the way to Win 10.

my two cents...
cheers -ben
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