OK, next question is what costs would we be saving by dropping
compatibility with IE 6 and 7?

If the cost of maintaining compatibility is minimal, at least for basic
Wikipedia accessibility and editing, then I hope that compatibility
continues. Compatibility for advanced features may require more effort than
makes sense.


On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Antoine Musso <[email protected]> wrote:

> Le 29/06/2014 21:11, Pine W a écrit :
> > Do we still have populations of legitimate users who are working with
> > Windows-based operating systems older than XP? I have heard that in the
> > developing world Windows 2000 is still in use, despite its security
> > vulnerabilities. That said, I would not oppose strongly encouraging users
> > to switch to an operating system that gets security patches.
> >
> > Pine
>
> We have a monthly breakdown by OS at:
> http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportOperatingSystems.htm
>
> Windows NT 5.0 (2000) is 112M requests or 0.05% of total requests.
> Windows 98 has 75.5M or 0.03%
>
> 100 millions requests is still a huge number :-)
>
> One of my Mac is still using Mac OS 10.5 which is quite old.  I cant
> upgrade it to a later version or it will just become too slow.  Luckily,
> there is nothing of important on that laptop, that is merely a spare one
> I don't mind loosing.
>
> --
> Antoine "hashar" Musso
>
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