[Python-Dev] PEP 11: Dropping support for ten year old systems (original) (raw)

Eli Bendersky eliben at gmail.com
Mon Dec 6 05🔞43 CET 2010

The other major system affected by this would be Windows 2000, for which

we already decided to not support it anymore.

WinXP (released August 2001) should be supported a lot longer than another year ;-) . It is still supported and installed on new systems.

Good catch. Windows XP, according to reports online has somewhere between 50-75% marketshare of all personal computers in the world. The Vista fiasco has created a large void which is only now starting to get filled with Windows 7, but it will yet take a long time to dethrone XP.

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