Re: [ros-dev] "Note: LibreOffice 5.4 will be the last codeline to support Windows XP or Vista"

[Colin Finck]

Rest assured, we know that ReactOS won't be of much use if we stay
NT5-only. Work is underway to provide a seamless support of NT6
applications on top of the existing codebase.
Also the majority of developers should be using an NT6 platform
themselves, so they certainly aim for support for NT6 applications.
Finally, applications compiled by modern versions of Visual Studio are
NT6-only by default, so supporting this platform is unavoidable.

Just my two cents, as the previous replies could lead you to believe
we're failing the reality check.

Cheers,

Colin


Am 29.06.2017 um 18:54 schrieb Riccardo Paolo Bestetti:
>   I’m just gonna snap in for my yearly IT guy NT6 rant:
> this mindset is
>  going to kill the project by making it useless whenever it reaches a
>  usable state.
>  
>  Windows XP/Server 2003 use is **already** marginal as of today, and it’s
>  only gonna get “worse” as more and more networks get infected by
>  ransomware and institutions all over the world wake up and update (and
>  as time passes of course). It’s not a matter of “fancy”, it is a matter
>  of what people use on their computers. With that argument you may as
>  well advocate for DOS.
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>  
>  Please don’t be offended, as always this is only intended as a reality
>  check.
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>   
>  
>  Best regards,
>  
>  Riccardo Paolo Bestetti
>  
>   
>  
>  *From:*Ros-dev [mailto:[e-mail]] *On Behalf Of
>  *Hermès BÉLUSCA-MAÏTO
>  *Sent:* giovedì 29 giugno 2017 16:09
>  *To:* 'ReactOS Development List' <ros-dev(a)reactos.org>
>  *Subject:* Re: [ros-dev] "Note: LibreOffice 5.4 will be the last
>  codeline to support Windows XP or Vista"
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>  I’m wondering for which useless / fancy features they need Windows 7+
>  support only….
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>  H.
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>  *De :*Ros-dev [mailto:[e-mail]] *De la part de*
>  Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo
>  *Envoyé :* jeudi 29 juin 2017 15:48
>  *À :* ReactOS Development List
>  *Objet :* [ros-dev] "Note: LibreOffice 5.4 will be the last codeline to
>  support Windows XP or Vista"
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>  https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/5.4.0/RC1
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>  FYI
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