On Thursday, 23 August 2018 23:03:43 PDT Thiago Macieira wrote: > Since we're talking about macOS 10.11 and I came across the Windows support > lifetime pages, I'm posting this for future reference. > > https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13853/windows-lifecycle-fact-sheet > > Windows 7 ends its Extended Support lifecycle on January 14, 2020, roughly a > year and a half from now. If we keep our current release cycle, the current > release at that time will be 5.14. Or, put differently, Windows 7 will be > out of support when 5.15 launches. > > We may want to drop support for it in one of those two releases. We should > announce we're doing so one year before the fact. So if we'd like to drop in > 5.14, we should include the announcement in the 5.12 changelog.
And here's some depressing news, "Based on that trend, Computerworld now predicts that Windows 7 will account for 35% of all active Windows editions when support ends in January 2020." - https://www.computerworld.com/article/3199373/windows-pcs/windows-by-the-numbers-windows-10s-growth-continues.html -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development