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No. Kill is to _only_ add bugfixes for X years and then commit to shutting it down, while creating a migration path (shumway, whatever) for existing code.

Windows XP is dead.

Windows 7 is dead.

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No way. My employer finished upgrading 250k devices to Windows 7 early last year.

Thanks to the epic fuckup with Windows 8, there's no way that transition to 10 will complete in 2020. My guess is that most large commercial customers will have 20% of users running Windows 7 through at least 2023. VDI or other similar mechanisms will be used to isolate it.

You'd be surprised to know how many millions of people use these dead operating systems on a daily basis.

Yes. Dead doesn't mean doesn't work.

Dead means EOL.

Win 7 is going to be an even bigger die hard than Win XP.

Yes. Windows 7, at 45%, is the most common operating system among Firefox users. Only 26% run Windows 10.

https://metrics.mozilla.com/firefox-hardware-report/#goto-os...

I'm running Windows 10. If I could pay to go back to Windows 7, I would in a heartbeat.

> No. Kill is to _only_ add bugfixes for X years and then commit to shutting it down, while creating a migration path (shumway, whatever) for existing code.

Shumway is dead. There is no migration path for existing code. The closest thing that exists is Haxe and OpenFL but it doesn't directly support ActionScript or SWF files. What they need to do is opensource the player.

I doubt they will open-source the player, for one primary reason: We already know that Flash is hilariously broken wrt security (see for example [1]), and exposing the source code will lead to dozens and dozens of horrible exploits within a few days, thus prompting browser vendors to forcefully lock out Flash in a cloak-and-dagger operation to protect their customers. (Either this, or Adobe will face a shitstorm of unprecedented proportions.)

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/article/offensive-security-research-com...

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