Question for Gamers Running Windows XP
Hi all,
I know a lot of audio games players are still running Windows XP. For those of you who are, I was wondering if you could answer a simple question: why? In your personal situation, why haven't you upgraded to a newer version of Windows? Is it a fear of the unknown, not knowing what the new OS will be like? Inaccessibility of the upgrade process? Something else?
I ask for a couple of reasons. One serious hurdle we're dealing with is the fact that, now that XP is no longer supported by Windows, it's very difficult to build something that will work on both XP and in new environments. For example, when looking into the possibility of publishing for Windows 10 and the Xbox store, we've found that some of the libraries we have to use in order to run on XP are too old to work in that environment, and the libraries we'd have to use for our purposes in the UWP environment aren't supported on XP. So for the general purposes of trying to get a ccessible gaming more prevalent in the mainstream market, designing for XP makes that difficult. So it would be good to at least know why people are on XP to begin with.
I'm also informally asking on behalf of some Microsoft folks. I got to talk to some of the ID@Xbox people at GDC including their community lead for gamers with disabilities, and their main accessibility people, and they were all pretty shocked when I told them so many blind gamers were still running XP. They wanted to understand why that was, and I told them I'd see what I could find out.
So, if you are running XP, it would be incredibly helpful if you'd post a short reply letting me know why, personally, you're still on that OS. Thanks!
(PS: If you aren't on XP, you could mention that too. Might help to debunk the myth that audio games can only be played on XP...)
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