I receive copies of mails concerning BOINC developments. Recently, there has been a lot of talk about 716.4, 64 bit only, etc.the talk seems to revolve around Windows 7 and Windows 10. As my machines run Windows 8.1 64 bit, I was a little curious as to what was happening.

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Pretty certain they will run on 8.1

I am more worried about running under WINE on Linux as recently I have failed to get BOINC 64 bit to run under WINE though I don't know if the issue is with boinc or with WINE and don't really know enough to start working out which.

That is what I would have expected. It is the very obvious "lack of mention" that piqued my interest.

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Bernd's first analysis did include both Windows 8 and Windows 8.1:

   16   Microsoft Windows Server 2008
   18   Microsoft Windows Server 2003 "R2"
   21   Microsoft Windows Server 2012
   23   Microsoft Windows Server 2003
   65   Microsoft Windows 8
   93   Microsoft Windows Vista
  118   Microsoft Windows Server 2008 "R2"
  162   Microsoft Windows Server 2016
  167   Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
  369   Microsoft Windows XP
  751   Microsoft Windows 8.1
 4406   Microsoft Windows 7
20274   Microsoft Windows 10

(connections to Einstein@Home in the last 60 days)

Indeed, but knowing who has connected, does not confirm who will still be able to connect. I was not overly concerned, it was the absence of mention in the quite large number of mails I'd seen. The number of Windows 7 there is a little surprising.

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