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

[Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d]

On 26-Jun-2015 10:35, rsw0x wrote:
> 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.
>> }
>
> http://searchcode.com/?q=if%28version%2Cstartswith%28%22windows+9%22%29

Wo-hoo OpenJDK, LOL. And that's given the exact words and only in 
open-source...

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Dmitry Olshansky