End of life for Windows Server 2003 R2 is July 14, 2015

[rsw0x via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 25 June 2015 at 20:10:30 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> On 25-Jun-2015 23:06, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> On 6/25/15 3:58 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>> On 25/06/15 18:46, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>>
>>>> Heh, that's awesome actually :)  Got a source for that?
>>>
>>> Windows 8 was a big failure. Windows 10 is looking much 
>>> better, I think
>>> it will get a much higher adaption rate.
>>>
>>
>> With their track record of "every other release" cycle where 
>> one is
>> great (XP, 7, (perhaps) 10) and one is horrid (Vista, 8[.1]), 
>> I wonder
>> if they skipped 9 on purpose :)
>
> AFAIK they found that way too many apps do checks like: 
> if(windowsVersion.startsWith("Windows 9"){
> // use crappy legacy-compatible code
> }
> else{
> // 2k/XP+ etc.
> }

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