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Mike Beltzner  
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 More options Apr 13 2009, 11:13 pm
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From: Mike Beltzner <beltz...@mozilla.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:13:05 -0400
Local: Mon, Apr 13 2009 11:13 pm
Subject: Re: Proposal: Raise minimum requirements for 1.9.2 on Windows to WinXP SP3
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On 13-Apr-09, at 10:33 PM, Michael Connor wrote:

> Proposal:

> Raise the minimum requirements for Gecko 1.9.2 (and any versions of  
> Firefox built on 1.9.2) for Windows builds to require Windows XP  
> Service Pack 3 or higher.

Is there a reason for specifying SP3 here, in terms of development  
demand to keep Gecko compatible? Put another way, have the Windows  
libraries changed sufficiently between SP1 and SP3 that it's likely  
that we'll produce a version of Gecko that would be compatible with  
Windows XP SP3+ but not with SP2 or SP1?

Right now the majority of our Windows users are still on XP, but I'm  
not sure it's clear how many of those users have upgraded, or intend  
to upgrade (or in some cases are able to upgrade) and while I  
understand that the platform itself isn't supported by Microsoft, I do  
think that keeping those XP users from being able to use Firefox will  
end up doing more harm (to them) than good, no matter what the intent.

cheers,
mike


 
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