Anyway, at the governance meeting we agreed to keep the Windows 10 support 
as Level 2 for now.
Later we can move it to Level 1 if/when we have enough test coverage there.

On Wednesday, June 3, 2020 at 11:11:33 PM UTC+2, James Nord wrote:
>
> I'm not sure it's just a technical issue.
>
> last I was working in this area there where licensing issues around 
> running Windows 10 in VMs (when you run the windows Amis in Aws you also 
> pay the license for the software, same for GCP Azure etc).  Thus we would 
> need to have our own licenses for all these VMS and could not scale on 
> demand.
> Then there is the question if which windows 10, the just released 2004, or 
> any of the earlier but still supported versions.  They all have their 
> quirks (esp SSH for agents).
>
> I'm one of the minority that develops and tests on Windows, and normally a 
> big advocate for putting windows in CI so it's not me finding all the build 
> issues, but as far as win10 in the build farm is concerned I think we're on 
> the path of diminishing returns.
>
>

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