Re:Visual Studio '11' Announced
by jodrellblank on Friday February 24, 2012 @10:58PM
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And they can still use previous versions of VS to develop with XP. It won't stop working, it will gradually fade to governments and big businesses with inertia and businesses who don't want to pay to upgrade.
Then to smaller and smaller niches.
I'm not saying it should die, or it is bad, but that it is old and new tools are not 'insane' to not support it. IE9 came out almost a year ago and doesn't support XP, for example. DirectX vNext in Vista isn't XP compatible.
If it works for them, they will not break it.
That said: XP will eventually fade off, but not because of MS official support or extended or whatever. It will fade because end users will eventually stop installing and using it.
Our company only recently started the full roll out of Windows 7, and some computers still require Windows XP (for accounting applications).
These few computers will use Windows XP for the foreseeable future, official support or not.