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

[Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d]

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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Dmitry Olshansky