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From: Helmut Karlowski <helmut DOT karlowski AT ish DOT de>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support
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Corinna Vinschen 
Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:32:14 +0200
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> Now that Windows 2003 is finally out of long term support, and given
> that XP's much-too-long-term support ended 2014, I'll drop support for
> XP and Server 2003 from Cygwin End of 2015.

He - I'm still on XP!

> reports which can't be reproduced on at least Windows Vista (was there
> any XP-specific bug report in the last couple of years anyway?).

Maybe because XP rules?

> And during 2016 I will also slowly remove all the workarounds and
> kludges necessary to keep these zombies running, thus simplifing the
> codebase.

Guess that's better than to stick with the kludges, migration to 10 is
on the way.

-Helmut

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