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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 15:23:09 +0300
- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support
- Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
- References: <20150826115109 dot DC166300 dot helmut dot karlowski at ish dot de> <49A5ECFF7A0A419F829D58F760F8DDA3 at NCC1701> <20150826125618 dot 56814D38 dot helmut dot karlowski at ish dot de> <20150826112652 dot GF5046 at calimero dot vinschen dot de>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
> On Aug 26 12:56, Helmut Karlowski wrote:
>> > > Guess that's better than to stick with the kludges, migration to 10 is
>> > > on the way.
>> > From what I've seen and heard W10, while mostly stable, still coerces users
>> > towards the software as (an expensive) service model and follows the dictum
>> > that Microsoft knows more about what you want than you do (default saves to
>> > microsoft cloud storage, grabs your pictures for background slide show
>> > without asking, etc.).
>>
>> I hope I can customize it to behave like XP (only the goodies of
>> course).
> http://classicshell.net
That doesn't solve the hotkeys bound at driver levels, unfortunately.
Half of my keyboard dead now thanks to the move to Win7.
Anyway, on the topic: All I could ask is to give us a notice when the final
build for XP is available, so that we could prepare own mirrors.
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Wednesday, August 26, 2015 15:06:11
Sorry for my terrible english...
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