From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18548 invoked by alias); 27 Aug 2015 09:57:11 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 18536 invoked by uid 89); 27 Aug 2015 09:57:10 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-lb0-f170.google.com Received: from mail-lb0-f170.google.com (HELO mail-lb0-f170.google.com) (209.85.217.170) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 09:57:09 +0000 Received: by lbbtg9 with SMTP id tg9so8053068lbb.1 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 02:57:06 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.152.5.201 with SMTP id u9mr2067256lau.26.1440669426273; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 02:57:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.25.19.217 with HTTP; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 02:57:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <232266374.20150826152309@yandex.ru> References: <20150826115109.DC166300.helmut.karlowski@ish.de> <49A5ECFF7A0A419F829D58F760F8DDA3@NCC1701> <20150826125618.56814D38.helmut.karlowski@ish.de> <20150826112652.GF5046@calimero.vinschen.de> <232266374.20150826152309@yandex.ru> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 14:18:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support From: Bryan Berns To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-08/txt/msg00486.txt.bz2 On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: > 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. If you're passionate about it and you have any programming experience, keyboard filter drivers are quite easy to write. Only annoying thing is you need a signing certificate that is authorized for kernel code signing -- which is only available to companies and some slightly more expensive issuing authorities for individuals. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple