[tor-bugs] #13755 [Tor]: Declare that Windows XP and earlier are not officially supported.

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#13755: Declare that Windows XP and earlier are not officially supported.
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     Reporter:  yawning  |      Owner:
         Type:  task     |     Status:  new
     Priority:  normal   |  Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.7.x-final
    Component:  Tor      |    Version:  Tor: unspecified
   Resolution:           |   Keywords:  tor-relay, windows, documentation
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Changes (by nickm):

 * milestone:  Tor: 0.2.6.x-final => Tor: 0.2.7.x-final


Comment:

 If only we were lazy!  That would make all our problems easy to fix: we
 would only have to work harder.

 Unfortunately, we are working at capacity, and we need to decide where to
 spend our time to provide the most benefit.  Since Windows XP is very old
 (13 years), and no longer getting patches, it's not a good target for
 folks who'd like to remain secure.

 And testing for old releases and earlier doesn't come free.  Maintaining
 compatibility with ancient versions of Windows prevents us from using
 various features provided by newer releases, or makes it require more
 effort to do so.

 That said, I don't think that this is the series where we should drop XP.
 It's still got something like a 17% market share among desktop users, even
 though everybody running it really should have upgraded some while ago.
 So I'll defer this to 0.2.7.

 But as for dropping Windows 98 and 2000, that's an even clearer case.
 Right now, according to most surveys, they amount to less than a twentieth
 of a percent of desktops on the internet, between them.

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