hi, On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Mayur Patil <ram.nath241089@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello All, > > Today with New release of version 5.5.0 PHP has achieved > great development milestone. But has dropped support > for XP. I am wondering that most of people still using Windows > XP while most them has shifted from SP2 to SP3 too.Then > why developers have chosen this option?? Still expecting support > for Windows XP . Nothing forces you to update to 5.5. 5.4 supports XP and 2003 and will do for its full life (3 years). Both XP and 2k3 are not supported anymore by Microsoft, this is the right time to reduce our workload and improve the core by supporting less than 10 years old Windows versions. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php