[Development] Windows 7 support future removal

[Thiago Macieira]

On Thursday, 23 August 2018 23:03:43 PDT Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Since we're talking about macOS 10.11 and I came across the Windows support
> lifetime pages, I'm posting this for future reference.
> 
> https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13853/windows-lifecycle-fact-sheet
> 
> Windows 7 ends its Extended Support lifecycle on January 14, 2020, roughly a
> year and a half from now. If we keep our current release cycle, the current
> release at that time will be 5.14. Or, put differently, Windows 7 will be
> out of support when 5.15 launches.
> 
> We may want to drop support for it in one of those two releases. We should
> announce we're doing so one year before the fact. So if we'd like to drop in
> 5.14, we should include the announcement in the 5.12 changelog.

And here's some depressing news,

"Based on that trend, Computerworld now predicts that Windows 7 will account 
for 35% of all active Windows editions when support ends in January 2020." - 
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3199373/windows-pcs/windows-by-the-numbers-windows-10s-growth-continues.html

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center