Re: [boost] Windows XP support survey

Subject: Re: [boost] Windows XP support survey
From: Stephan T. Lavavej (stl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-05-08 07:04:28

[Niall Douglas]
> Also Vista is highly unusual in that it had no corresponding
> Windows Server edition. There was a straight jump from
> an XP base (2003) to a 7 base (2008).

This is completely incorrect. Server 2008 was Vista-class, Server 2008 R2 was Win7-class. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Server_2008 : "Windows Server 2008 is built from the same code base as Windows Vista".

Same deal with Server 2012 (8.0-class) and Server 2012 R2 (8.1-class).

STL