For what it's worth: Vista does not even rise above the noise at https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam and is just barely present at https://netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?id=platformsDesktopVersions
If I were still supporting Vista on anything, I'd be thinking seriously about dropping it like a stone. - Dan On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 1:36 PM Brian Inglis <brian.ing...@systematicsw.ab.ca> wrote: > > On 2018-12-01 07:44, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > (*) Do we still have any Vista users on this list? > > Or can we just pull the plug on Vista support? > > Vista extended support ended 18 months ago; standard support 5 years before; > all > browsers but Opera and Lunascape (and IE9 on Vista SP2) dropped support for > Vista and XP 6 months ago or earlier; estimates of remaining Vista users are > an > order of magnitude less than XP users: > > W10 ~ W7 ~45% each >> W8.1 ~ XP ~5% each > W8 ~1% > Vista ~.3-.6% or 1/166-333 > systems * setup exe download annual unique IP count? > > Does anyone do regular analysis of sourceware access logs to justify support? > What do the sourceware setup exe download and/or mailing list user agent > strings > tell you? > > N.B. W7/2008 extended (security) support ends in just over a year. > Start migrating those systems to VMs behind firewalls. > MS describes this as $100G opportunity (AKA user cost)! > > -- > Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada > > This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains > too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
