Bug #83214 Documentation announces Win 7 support has already ended
Submitted: 29 Sep 2016 20:05 Modified: 28 Apr 2019 6:45
Reporter: Peter Brawley (Basic Quality Contributor) Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Documentation Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:current OS:Any
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[29 Sep 2016 20:05] Peter Brawley
Description:
Your page at https://www.mysql.com/support/eol-notice.html carries a date of Sept 19 2016, and announces that support for Windows 7 will stop on June 23 2016, ie three months ago.

How to repeat:
As above
[30 Sep 2016 10:43] Peter Laursen
I am very surprised when seeing this.

Win7 is suported by Microsoft till 2020:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13853/windows-lifecycle-fact-sheet

Win7 is still the most widely used Windows flavor (no matter all the tricks  MS has attepted to make users upgrade to Win10):
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems

Stopping support for Win7 now and for the 3-4 years makes absolutely no sense to me. 

-- Peter
-- not a MySQL/Oracle person
[30 Sep 2016 11:43] MySQL Verification Team
Hello Peter Brawley,

Thank you for the report and feedback.
I'm sorry but I don't see any discrepancy on https://www.mysql.com/support/eol-notice.html

September 19, 2016 - "Support EOL for MySQL Enterprise Monitor 3.0
Per the MySQL Enterprise Monitor Lifecycle policy of supporting the three most recent GA releases, MySQL Enterprise Monitor 3.0 has reached end of life with the GA announcement of MySQL Enterprise Monitor 3.3."

June 23, 2016 - "Support EOL for Windows 7
Per the MySQL Support Lifecycle policy regarding ending support for OS versions that are obsolete or have reached end of life, we plan to discontinue supporting all MySQL binaries for Microsoft Windows 7 as of June 23, 2016"

Imho which is correct one, is there anything else I'm missing? Please let us know.

Thanks,
Umesh
[30 Sep 2016 17:04] Peter Brawley
"No discrepancy"!?

First, the oage caries a date of Sept 19 2016, and announces Win 7 support will end three month ago.

Second, the specific para carries the same date as the announced end of support, giving no-one any warning whatever.

Third, Win7 is the most used version of Windows. Ending support for it is absurd.

Hello?
[28 Apr 2019 0:38] Paul DuBois
This bug (from 2016) is no longer relevant.
[28 Apr 2019 6:45] Peter Brawley
Ignored till it became irrelevant, then closed. Nice.