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

[Fabio Niephaus]

On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 9:01 AM Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de>
wrote:

>
> Hmm... regarding that function, 0x0600 would be enough. Sure. But Vista?
> Seriously? :-D
>
> It's voting time! Here you go: http://www.strawpoll.me/20045290
>

No need to vote, you gave the best reason to keep 0x0600 in your statement
above. Why drop support if 0x0600 is enough!?

Fabio


>
> Best,
> Marcel
>
> Am 13.05.2020 21:50:49 schrieb Nicolas Cellier <
> nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> Le mer. 13 mai 2020 à 19:15, Ben Coman a écrit :
>
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 13 May 2020 at 16:38, Stéphane Rollandin
> > 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.
> > [image: image.png]
> >
> >
> 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
> >
> > like Ben said, thanks for these pointers.
> it seems that the function is supported as of 0x0600 (vista and server
> 2008)
> So it's not necessary to break compatibility with windows 7 yet, too many
> users still.
> Just use 0x0600 instead of 0x0602.
>
> Hi all,
>
> Le mer. 13 mai 2020 à 19:15, Ben Coman <btc at openinworld.com> a écrit :
>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>> [image: image.png]
>>
>> 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
>>
>> like Ben said, thanks for these pointers.
> it seems that the function is supported as of 0x0600 (vista and server
> 2008)
> So it's not necessary to break compatibility with windows 7 yet, too many
> users still.
> Just use 0x0600 instead of 0x0602.
>
>
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