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TillE on Nov 8, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: .NET 6 Released

Also if you still need to support XP (even back when it was still getting patches), forget it, Microsoft has no interest in supporting you.

Even if you want to use the latest and greatest UI, your customers need to keep up too. Completely unworkable.

ClumsyPilot on Nov 9, 2021 [–]

XP is 20 years old, its older than invasion of Afganistan.

andai on Nov 9, 2021 | [–]

I recently ran XP in a VM inside Windows 10 and was amazed at how much faster everything ran, how quickly programs start, and how responsive they are. Feels like we lost something along the way...

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