david.atwell Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 C'mon, Rick, I know you better than that. Sooner or later, a Win7 Service Pack will have some cool new feature you'll want to use, it won't be on XP, and you'll drop the support. :-P Quote The Doctor: There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.Amy: But how did it end up in there?The Doctor: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it.River Song: I hate good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 Windows 2000 support wasn't dropped until it was at 4% or 5% of the user base and dropping. This just happened to coincide with Paint.NET v3.0 and Windows Vista's release dates. Windows XP isn't anywhere near that low. From a business standpoint, dropping XP support would just be dumb right now. I can't predict the trends for the user base, so it doesn't make sense to establish a schedule for it. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyrochild Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 EDIT: A worry I might consider: if the past is any indication, Windows XP support may be removed from Paint.NET when Windows 7 is released. Says who? Extrapolation. Not long after Vista made its debut, you ended W2K support. I'm sure you're planning on dropping WXP support eventually, no? http://xkcd.com/605/ Quote ambigram signature by Kemaru [i write plugins and stuff] If you like a post, upvote it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyrochild Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 Sooner or later, a Win7 Service Pack will have some cool new feature you'll want to use, it won't be on XP, and you'll drop the support. :-P No service pack necessary. DirectWrite. Quote ambigram signature by Kemaru [i write plugins and stuff] If you like a post, upvote it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.atwell Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 Aha. I seem to have fallen into the Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc fallacy. My fault. Quote The Doctor: There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.Amy: But how did it end up in there?The Doctor: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it.River Song: I hate good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 DirectWrite should eventually be on Vista as well. And XP will just have to be happy with GDI text rendering. It's not a make-or-break feature. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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