Of course, be warned that MS will eventually begin to remove references to Windows XP from the current MSDN documentation after it goes out of support.
On Wednesday, June 26, 2013 7:37:23 AM UTC-7, Johnathan Nightingale wrote: > XP is a massive platform both for our current user base and for the > developing world where we see millions of new web users coming online every > month. We won't be dropping support in the near future, nor do we have a set > date by which we would do so. > > > > J > > > > --- > > Johnathan Nightingale > > VP Firefox Engineering > > @johnath > > > > On Jun 26, 2013, at 10:13 AM, Michael Hoye wrote: > > > > > > > > We've dropped support for platforms before - Win9x back when dinosaurs > > roamed the earth, Win2k, All OSX on PPC as of Firefox 4.0, OSX 10.4 and > > earlier as of I'm not sure when. See: > > > > > > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-no-longer-works-mac-os-10-4-or-powerpc > > > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-no-longer-works-some-versions-windows-xp > > > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-no-longer-works-windows-2000 > > > > > > Also, some historical bugs: > > > > > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330276 > > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359808 > > > > > > Manufacturer-EOL doesn't seem to be the driving factor in that decision. It > > looks mostly about how many of our users are still on the platform v. the > > resources we have available to support them. > > > > > > XP is unusual for its longevity and market base - is it still more than a > > third of our users? That wouldn't surprise me - but I don't think there's > > ever been a formal criteria or roadmap for dropping support. > > > > > > - mhoye > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > >> From: "Kyle Huey" <[email protected]> > > >> To: "PARET Sebastien" <[email protected]> > > >> Cc: "Asa Dotzler" <[email protected]>, [email protected] > > >> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 9:08:29 AM > > >> Subject: Re: End of XP support in April 2014: what about Mozilla products? > > >> > > >> Asa can give you the official word here but the end of support from > > >> Microsoft is unlikely to effect our decision to support Windows XP, which > > >> will be based on how many users we have still running XP (among other > > >> things). > > > _______________________________________________ > > > governance mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
