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 hashar+wmf@free.fr 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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