Martin Heller
Contributing Writer

Windows Version Trends

analysis
Aug 18, 20071 min

In the comments to my posting yesterday about maintaining backward compatibility, I was induced to reference the graph of Windows versions over time that PC Pitstop generates every month at http://www.pcpitstop.com/research/os.asp. Here it is: PC Pitstop no longer worries about Windows 95 compatibility, because according to its own numbers nobody really cares any more....

In the comments to my posting yesterday about maintaining backward compatibility, I was induced to reference the graph of Windows versions over time that PC Pitstop generates every month at https://www.pcpitstop.com/research/os.asp. Here it is:

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PC Pitstop no longer worries about Windows 95 compatibility, because according to its own numbers nobody really cares any more.

Martin Heller

Martin Heller is a contributing writer at InfoWorld. Formerly a web and Windows programming consultant, he developed databases, software, and websites from his office in Andover, Massachusetts, from 1986 to 2010. From 2010 to August of 2012, Martin was vice president of technology and education at Alpha Software. From March 2013 to January 2014, he was chairman of Tubifi, maker of a cloud-based video editor, having previously served as CEO.

Martin is the author or co-author of nearly a dozen PC software packages and half a dozen Web applications. He is also the author of several books on Windows programming. As a consultant, Martin has worked with companies of all sizes to design, develop, improve, and/or debug Windows, web, and database applications, and has performed strategic business consulting for high-tech corporations ranging from tiny to Fortune 100 and from local to multinational.

Martin’s specialties include programming languages C++, Python, C#, JavaScript, and SQL, and databases PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, Google Cloud Spanner, CockroachDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Couchbase. He writes about software development, data management, analytics, AI, and machine learning, contributing technology analyses, explainers, how-to articles, and hands-on reviews of software development tools, data platforms, AI models, machine learning libraries, and much more.

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