Monday, 20 February 2017

Blizzard Ending Support for Windows XP and Vista


I'm fine with this.

There is no need for them to keep supporting older versions of Windows - especially when Microsoft aren't doing that themselves. Microsoft stopped their extended support of XP back in '14. Vista will stop getting supported in a month or so.


Ending Support for Windows XP and Vista
Ornyx / Community Manager
Starting later this year, we will begin the process of ending support for Windows XP and Windows Vista in World of Warcraft, StarCraft II, Diablo III, Hearthstone, and Heroes of the Storm. Microsoft ceased mainstream support for these versions of Windows in 2009 and 2012, respectively, but since a decent portion of our audience was still using them at the time, we continued supporting them. However, there have been three major Windows releases since Vista, and at this point, the vast majority of our audience has upgraded to one of the newer versions.
After these older operating systems are no longer supported, the games will not run on them, so we encourage any players who are still using one of the older OSes to upgrade to a newer version. We’ll be rolling out this change on a staggered schedule, and will post further notices as we get closer to making the change for each game.