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Message from discussion Proposal: Raise minimum requirements for 1.9.2 on Windows to WinXP SP3
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Mike Shaver  
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 More options Apr 14 2009, 10:03 am
Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.planning
From: Mike Shaver <mike.sha...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:03:07 -0400
Local: Tues, Apr 14 2009 10:03 am
Subject: Re: Proposal: Raise minimum requirements for 1.9.2 on Windows to WinXP SP3
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On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Robert Kaiser <ka...@kairo.at> wrote:
> 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?

I don't see that position stated in the quote -- why do you think that
Mike believes that they would upgrade only to get Firefox?  (Though "a
single user" is a pretty low bar, so I'd probably be willing to make a
wager.)

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

They'll have to stick with IE6 if they want to keep Win2K on desktops,
I think, since IE7 isn't supported there AFAIK.  That's not really an
addressable market for us regardless, I'm pretty sure, so we should
again focus on getting the most result for our investment.

Mike


 
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