Windows XP and Vista Long Term Support Plan

[Chris Peterson]

On 10/13/2016 10:52 AM, Justin Dolske wrote:
> I think the concern is that it's "indefinite" in the sense that the 
> plan is vague about when support for ESR52 would end. And so the risk 
> is that different people have different understanding of how long 
> that's likely to continue, and that we find ourselves painted into a 
> corner with needing to support ESR52 far longer than anyone thought we 
> would. (As an extreme example, what would happen if XP usage stopped 
> declining?)

As for the increasing difficulty of backporting security fixes, how many 
bugs are fixed in a typical ESR dot release? Does the number of fixes 
per dot release go down over the ESR support cycle?