Blizzard will Drop Windows XP and Vista Support Later this Year

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  • Blizzard will Drop Windows XP and Vista Support Later this Year

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    Later this year, Blizzard will drop support for Windows XP and Windows Vista. The announcement came via a short Battle.net announcement.
    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.

    I'm sure there are still a number of die hard XP users that will continue to stick with that dated and potentially very dangerous operating system even after the support ends from Blizzard. Those people should probably get with the times.

    • K-16
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      K-16 commented
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      I didn't even know Starcraft II, Diablo III, and Hearthstone ran on Windows XP to begin with. With that said... I still dual-boot between Windows XP SP 3 and Windows 98 SE. I use DOS too. Not DosBox, but DOS... So, am I a die hard too who failed to get with the times?

      I mean, I have access to a computer with Windows 7, but I prefer 98 SE... Kind of doing a sheepish grin right now... Eheheheh... Heh...
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