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(a)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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