Channel 9 - Discussions by deiruch http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 - Discussions by deiruch http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/deiruch/Discussions Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/deiruch/Discussions en Fri, 24 May 2013 04:08:29 GMT Fri, 24 May 2013 04:08:29 GMT Rev9 0 0 0 Tech Off - A question on XP support in VC11 All I was saying is that XP still has a large installed base. I expect XP will (sadly) stay with us for a couple more years. Many people don't care that much about whether IE9 or Visual Studio 2012 runs on their machine. There are many offices and home users that get along fine with XP and Office 2003 on their old machine. And probably will for the next few years. Surprisingly, even 16% of all Steam users are still on XP (http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey?platform=pc, click "Windows Version" in the table).

Let's be realistic here:

  1. Microsoft's decision is understandable.
  2. Microsoft (probably) has no evil motives.
  3. XP is still in use, not just in niche markets and probably will be for the forseeable future.
  4. A fair share of developers have therefore interest in XP compatibility
  5. There are workarounds to the problem
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, evildictaitor wrote

*snip*

You make it sound like Microsoft only has one customer and that customer wants XP support as a backend to Visual Studio. That's not true. Microsoft has bajillions of customers for Visual Studio. All of them want a CRT that is faster, safer and cheaper. Not all of them want XP support as a backend.

*snip*

With XP having a market share of 38%-48% *) I think it's fair to expect that most customers are still interested in XP support.

 

*) Source: Various random reports found via https://www.google.com/#q=xp+market+share+2012

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