On 04/18/2016 07:20 AM, Lawrence Mandel wrote:
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 9:04 AM, Henri Sivonen <hsivo...@hsivonen.fi> wrote:
XP has now gone for two years without security patches from Microsoft.
Additionally, as of its latest release, Chrome no longer supports XP.
When 46 ships, it would be a great time to make AUS advertise 45 ESR
builds to XP (even on non-ESR) channel. This would keep XP supported
through the ESR cycle but would put an end to the XP tax on trunk.
Are we already on track to doing this? If not, why not?
We are not on track to do this.
The Firefox Product team is investigating Firefox use on XP in order to
make a decision about the criteria that need to be met to continue to
support this OS. No decision has been made about a change in support for
Windows XP.
Past performance is not an indicator of future results. :)
I don't see how we can estimate the trajectory of XP usage when we have
the discontinuity from Chrome removing XP support. I would expect an
uptick in our XP percentage as a result. How much of an uptick, I have
no idea.
Nor do I know how we want to balance the XP equation -- supporting XP
means putting users at risk by allowing them to continue running an
insecure OS. And yet, a substantial number people will continue to run
XP with or without us, and abandoning them isn't doing them any favors
either.
But if we're going to use number of users as a metric in the decision, I
think we'd have to wait to see the effects of the end of Chrome support.
XP users also aren't going to be the early adopters and thought leaders,
so I would think that x% of XP users is less valuable than x% of Windows
10 users. (Although they may be a more loyal x%, given their lack of
options and resistance to change...)
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