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Message from discussion Proposal: Raise minimum requirements for 1.9.2 on Windows to WinXP SP3
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Robert Kaiser  
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 More options Apr 14 2009, 9:51 am
Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.planning
From: Robert Kaiser <ka...@kairo.at>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:51:35 +0200
Local: Tues, Apr 14 2009 9:51 am
Subject: Re: Proposal: Raise minimum requirements for 1.9.2 on Windows to WinXP SP3
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Michael Connor wrote:
> Put another way, XP (no SP) and XP SP1 have been unsupported and
> unpatched for years now. Users on those OSes are almost certainly
> vulnerable, if they're not already owned.

Wait, you seriously believe one single user would upgrade their OS just
because there's no new Firefox available for them? Int he contrary, they
will either switch to a different browser or continue to use an old,
more insecure Firefox. That's already the case with a good number of
people on Win9x and Firefox 2 (still millions of people, last I heard)
and I haven't yet heard of anyone who thrashed Win9x because Firefox 2
was EOLed and Firefox 3 is not available for them.

It sounds like some people here have a strange view of how people decide
to use what system. Firefox is not the driving force for people to buy
new computers (which is bad for nature anyways) or buy and install new
operating systems.

And dropping Win2k support will be a very good argument for business not
using Firefox ;-)

Robert Kaiser


 
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