Iain Learmonth:
Hi,
On 13/02/2019 16:56, neel@neelc.org wrote:
I don't think this is the right mailing list.
This is entirely the correct mailing list as it is discussing a technical policy of the network team.
I am not sure whether that's actually the intention of the original question. Assuming with "get Tor updates" it's actually meant to get *Tor Browser* updates (there is no tor update mechanism for Windows afaict) let me add the browser related bits here.
Mozilla stopped supporting Windows XP starting with Firefox 60 ESR, which is the browser version underlying Tor Browser 8.x. We decided that we will follow Mozilla here as maintaining an even larger fork supporting XP is risky both security- and resource-wise. Thus, even if tor would not have the respective policy for Windows XP, the browser would not run on that outdated and unmaintained Windows version.
Georg