2012/5/9 Gabriel Dos Reis <[email protected]>: > On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Ruben Van Boxem > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> That said, a new threading model is great, but essentially unusable on >> Windows XP. Which today might be a problem for people distributing binaries. >> They'll have to build two versions (as I've said before) and confuse their >> users even more than the usual 32-bit/64-bit drama people still experience. > > MS announced end of XP support in less than 2 years... > We are going to have this model through at least 2017 :-) > > -- Gaby
Yes, then we are free to drop XP support ;) Well, seriously. It is hard to believe, but there are still Win9x users running in the wild. So it will take for sure much longer that XP support can be dropped finally. Kai ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
