What’s the “XP tax”? Graphics usually tries to simplify the playing field as much as possible, but I can’t say that XP has been causing any trouble, or that we have been getting too many XP specific problems (certainly fewer than Windows 10 :)
I don’t see XP going away soon, and as mentioned, may even go up. — - Milan > On Apr 18, 2016, at 12:25 , Steve Fink <sf...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > 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...) > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org <mailto:dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org> > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > <https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform> _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
