Re: [PHP-WIN] Dropping support of Windows XP

2012-11-17 Thread Pierre Joye
hi Lester, On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Lester Caine wrote: > Pierre Joye wrote: >> >> Nothing forces you to update to 5.5. 5.4 supports XP and 2003 and will >> do for its full life (3 years). >> >> Both XP and 2k3 are not supported anymore by Microsoft, this is the >> right time to reduce o

Re: [PHP-WIN] Dropping support of Windows XP

2012-11-17 Thread Lester Caine
Pierre Joye wrote: Nothing forces you to update to 5.5. 5.4 supports XP and 2003 and will do for its full life (3 years). Both XP and 2k3 are not supported anymore by Microsoft, this is the right time to reduce our workload and improve the core by supporting less than 10 years old Windows versio

Re: [PHP-WIN] Dropping support of Windows XP

2012-11-17 Thread Pierre Joye
hi, On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Mayur Patil wrote: > Hello All, > >Today with New release of version 5.5.0 PHP has achieved >great development milestone. But has dropped support >for XP. I am wondering that most of people still using Windows >XP while most them has shifted fr

Re: [PHP-WIN] Dropping support of Windows XP

2012-11-16 Thread Guillaume Rossolini
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Mayur Patil wrote: > Hello All, > >Today with New release of version 5.5.0 PHP has achieved > >great development milestone. But has dropped support > >for XP. I am wondering that most of people still using Windows > >XP while most them has shifted f

Re: [PHP-WIN] Dropping support of Windows XP

2012-11-16 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
Hi Mayur, The Mainstream support for Windows Xp has ended on April 14, 2009 (more than 3,5 years ago), and the extended support will end at April 8, 2014, so there will be less and less people still using Xp. About why the windows team dropped the support for Xp, you can see some information in th

Re: [PHP-WIN] Dropping support of Windows XP

2012-11-16 Thread Lester Caine
Mayur Patil wrote: Today with New release of version 5.5.0 PHP has achieved great development milestone. But has dropped support for XP. I am wondering that most of people still using Windows XP while most them has shifted from SP2 to SP3 too.Then why developers have chosen t