[Interest] [Development] Windows 7 support will be dropped in Qt 6

[Filip Piechocki]

Hi,
for me not updating a system, software etc for many years is just equal to
building a technical debt. Any serious company should be aware that this
will finally kick them in their butt, should have measure the potential
cost and decide where is the point where they should switch. If a company
decides to not care about this then someone else will decide for them for
example by dropping support for their OS/hardware/whatever.
Backwards compatibility is nice but the world (especially IT world) is
moving forward and lagging behind is a potential risk and cost.

BR
Filip

On Sat, Jun 13, 2020, 09:21 Konrad Rosenbaum <konrad at silmor.de> wrote:

> On 2020-06-12 02:44, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > On 12/6/20 10:17 am, Scott Bloom wrote:
> >> Why is Win7 being dropped?  I (my company) has gotten burned pretty
> >> hard by the dropping of CentOS 6, similar reasons listed for win7..
> >
> > It's funny that there's so much discussion about dropping Windows 7
> > which was released 11 years ago.
> >
> > Yet Qt 5.15 already dropped macOS prior to 10.13, which is not even 3
> > years old. And Qt trunk requires 10.14, which is only 2 years old.
> > This is really a major PITA.
>
>
> From an industry perspective: I have seen lots of machines running all
> kinds of outdated versions of Windows(*) or rather old versions of
> RedHat or embedded Linux(**), but it has been a very very long time
> since I have seen a machine running some Apple product of any version.
> I.e. there are plenty of Windows users who have the bucks to demand long
> term support for their systems, the same cannot be said for Apple users.
>
> (*)if you walk into a running factory it is pretty normal to find a
> large portion of the machines running XP, I would not be surprised to
> find a W2k machine or even a machine running DOS in a factory that has
> been running for 15 years. New factories will have plenty of machines
> running Win7, because new OSes is simply not what the machine suppliers
> care about most.
>
> (**)you will regularly find machines running a 2.6 kernel, some may even
> run 2.4. Many GUIs look suspiciously Motif-like and if you get to see
> the window manager behind the full-screen GUI it may look eerily CDE-ish
> or FVWM-like.
>
> Industry is willing to pay large amounts of support and maintenance
> costs for the machines they run - this is what keeps people like Roland
> and me well fed. Unless you can find a large industry or two that care
> about legacy MacOS and are willing to pay tons of money for support, it
> will stay bleeding edge because maintenance cost goes up exponentially
> with the number of systems you have to support.
>
>
>
>     Konrad
>
>
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