On Dec 1 14:36, Brian Inglis wrote: > On 2018-12-01 07:44, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > (*) Do we still have any Vista users on this list? > > Or can we just pull the plug on Vista support? > > Vista extended support ended 18 months ago; standard support 5 years > before; all browsers but Opera and Lunascape (and IE9 on Vista SP2) > dropped support for Vista and XP 6 months ago or earlier; estimates of > remaining Vista users are an order of magnitude less than XP users: > > W10 ~ W7 ~45% each >> W8.1 ~ XP ~5% each > W8 ~1% > Vista ~.3-.6% or > 1/166-333 systems * setup exe download annual unique IP count? > > Does anyone do regular analysis of sourceware access logs to justify > support? What do the sourceware setup exe download and/or mailing > list user agent strings tell you?
Assuming the access statistics have any relevance, we get roughly this: W 10 69.8 % W 8.1 5.4 % W 8 0.7 % W 7 23.9 % Vista 0.2 % > N.B. W7/2008 extended (security) support ends in just over a year. > Start migrating those systems to VMs behind firewalls. > MS describes this as $100G opportunity (AKA user cost)! Time to move on, I guess. There's Linux, too... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Maintainer
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