On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 3:13 AM, Orestis Markou <orestis@orestis.gr> wrote:
On 30 Οκτ 2013, at 12:34 π.μ., Glyph <glyph@twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
On Oct 28, 2013, at 8:45 AM, Kevin Horn <kevin.horn@gmail.com> wrote:
It's also worth noting that there are a fair number of people (at least I know some) who use their old XP licenses for testing Windows software in VMs, especially if they're usually working in Linux or Mac OS X.
Do you, yourself do this?
I used to do that, but nowadays use the VMs Microsoft provides for testing webpages under IE [1] and multiple windows environments. Just download your favorite flavor and run. I'm not sure about limitations they might have, but I was able to install other software just fine.
It's worth noting that MS still provides XP images on this site, though I suppose that may (probably will) change when XP extended support ends. With luck, maybe that means I can finally stop caring about IE6 entirely. I'm probably not that lucky though... In any case I think Twisted should keep support for XP until extended support ends, or at least until we know what the user base looks like _after_ extended support ends. I'm not too familiar with the overhead of doing so, however, so it's not that informed of an opinion, I'm afraid. -- Kevin Horn