Mirko,
Please re-read what I wrote (and you cut out):
a) Win XP has a market penetration of one in every nine or ten computers
world wide; I might guess that this percentage is higher outside the
"Western world" where libraries are perhaps just as important, or more so,
than in "developed countries." Nothing to do with pyramids, but whether or
not the Koha Wiki is important to them, I'll leave up to you...
b) I wrote very clearly that I was updating our old WinXP boxes to Linux --
I've only got three out of twenty-seven to go :=} The bottom line is that
until a few days ago, all our workstations could access the Koha Wiki; now
three of them can't. No problem, my email was informational only.
As to paying Microsoft's licensing fees, we're a charity and prefer
spending our budget on outreach to school children, rather than financing
Redmond.
Best -- Paul
At 08:58 PM 1/30/2016 +0100, Mirko Tietgen wrote:
Hi,
Paul A schrieb am 30.01.2016
> It appears that the Koha/Let's encrypt certificate will never
> work on WinXP
No, it won't. XP was dead before LE was born. It will probably not
work for other ancient stuff, like pyramids.
Wikipedia[1] says
> On April 14, 2009, Windows XP exited mainstream support and
> entered the Extended Support phase; [
] Extended support ended on
> April 8, 2014, over 12 years since the release of XP; normally
> Microsoft products have a support life cycle of only 10
> years.[118] Beyond the final security updates released on April
> 8, no more security patches or support information are provided
> for XP free-of-charge; "critical patches" will still be created,
> and made available only to customers subscribing to a paid
> "Custom Support" plan
I don't know how much money you would have to put into the paid
"Custom Plan" for something like this to happen, but since the rest
of the world does not have a paid "Support Win XP forever" plan,
it's not really their problem either.
If XP still works for you, cool. If it does not, well, there have
been a few new versions now to choose an upgrade from. Or switch to
GNU/Linux, I hear it's quite good.
-- Mirko
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP#End_of_support
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