Modding site Nexus drops Windows XP for Nexus Mod Manager

[Bateluer]

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/news/12345/?

Thought this was interesting.

The NMM programmers are finding that more and more of their time is being taken up by trying to support old and outdated versions of the .NET framework which is not only limiting the functionality NMM can provide but, simply put, taking an inordinate amount of time for the less than 5% of people this helps to support. The inherent issue is that Windows XP no longer supports the latest versions of .NET, specifically, version 4.5 of .NET. Statistics show that less than 5% of users who use NMM are on Windows XP. We have therefore taken the decision to branch NMM from this point on in to two releases: the normal Nexus Mod Manager and the Nexus Mod Manager - Legacy Edition.

The Legacy Edition of NMM will be for those users who either want NMM to simply stay as it is right now or who cannot use the main version of NMM due to it now requiring the latest version of .NET in order to work. It's the fall-back to support those users who can't, won't or don't want to kept up to date with their operating systems. For us, NMM is now for Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8, the Legacy Edition is for users of Windows XP.

We will update the Legacy Edition with any bug fixes that can be applied but, unless a new feature doesn't make use of any .NET 4.5 features, the Legacy Edition is now feature frozen: it will not be getting any new functionality.

According to them, the Nexus site only sees about 5% of Windows XP users. And I can't believe there's too many games playing, let alone modding, the games Nexus supports, that are still using XP.

 

[norseamd]

they released yet another version of nexus mod manager?

i downloaded the last one and have not even installed it yet

oh well i need to fix my skyrim mod installations

 

[Bateluer]

they released yet another version of nexus mod manager?

Its a running beta, new minor versions come out fairly regularly.

 

[mmntech]

I can see still hanging on to XP as a platform for older games. Though why anybody would be trying to run stuff like Skyrim on it is a mystery to me.

 

[drebo]

I can run Warcraft 1, 2, and 3 just fine in Windows 7 64-bit. If those can run, everything can run. There's no reason what so ever to be using XP still.

 

[Bateluer]

I can see still hanging on to XP as a platform for older games. Though why anybody would be trying to run stuff like Skyrim on it is a mystery to me.

There's a poster here with 500+ games running under Win 7 64. Not sure if he's moved to W8 though.