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

[Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d]

On 06/26/2015 07:31 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>
> Well, be aware that we don't officially support XP and haven't for a
> while. Odds are, it'll work in most cases, but there may be
> functionality in druntime or Phobos which relies on system calls added
> to Windows in Vista. So, while you're obviously free to use an older
> version of Windows if you want to, there's no guarantee that it'll work
> with a current or future release of dmd/druntime/Phobos/etc., and we
> won't fix it if it doesn't.
>

Considering that, according to that link Steven posted, XP still has 
nearly 10x the desktop market share of even Linux (1.57%? Can that even 
be right?), I think that policy is quite premature and rooted more in 
excuses rather than reason.