In the past era (XP – Win 8.1), they did this to sell new OSes every few years. Even the latest games and programs could work perfectly on Windows XP if Microsoft updated it with the new features. It’s planned obsolescence from Microsoft that they purposely make older Windows incompatible with new games / programs. Otherwise the older system still works perfectly. There are no reasons to upgrade to newer Windows, except if one wants the latest games / programs. That’s the problem with people, they can be deceived by the media hype to update. The OS will have been abandoned by Microsoft for 4 years by the time Firefox drops it. How much longer should XP browser support last, in your opinion ? But there are other concerns such as security, for instance SHA-1 being insecure and no alternative being available to XP: Purely strategically speaking, I’m not going to take a stance since I don’t have a clear view of the Windows XP Firefox user base. I don’t know what Mozilla will do about e10s in Firefox 52 ESR, but the architecture will be more mature and tested than in 45 by then, so perhaps there will not be a hard block ? I guess we’ll see. Google is right because they’re strong, and Mozilla is wrong.īut if you reason ethically, who is more respectable now ? That reasoning essentially amounts to say that strength makes right.

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