On 2014-11-13 15:25, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
Hello Austin,
Friday, November 7, 2014, 9:16:22 PM, you wrote:
For one, Microsoft doesn't support XP anymore, so most people are moving off it anyway. 'Soon' even XP Embedded will be obsoleted.
at the end of http://freearc.org/Statistics.aspx page you can find stats about OS used by ysers of my program - archiver written in haskell. these are 14% of *geeks* using the l;atest alpha version (stable version of my program ddoesn't report this parameter)
so dropping XP support means that newer GHC can't be used anymore to compile general-purpose programs targeting large user audience
I'm not sure I understand the version numbers, but it seems 95.46% of your users a version from before June 26, 2010. How likely are they to upgrade if they haven't upgraded since 2010?