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A comment on Ask HN: Should my site support Windows XP?.

Re:Ask HN: Should my site support Windows XP? by T-A on Sunday November 12, 2017 @09:19AM (#15680915)
How likely is somebody still using Windows XP (6.5% of all desktop users, according to [1]; most of them Chinese running pirated copies, I would guess) to buy what you are selling?

[1] https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share...

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Re:Ask HN: Should my site support Windows XP? by amingilani on Sunday November 12, 2017 @03:29PM (#15682485)
You make a fair point. However, since I'm in Pakistan, I found one person I wanted to demo the site to that uses Windows XP :/

I was super surprised when that happened.

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Re:Ask HN: Should my site support Windows XP? by strangecasts on Sunday November 12, 2017 @08:16PM (#15683550)
Firefox ESR has TLS support and should work on XP until next year, at least. Telling people to switch browsers to use the site isn't great, but it's certainly an easier sell than switching the OS.
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Re:Ask HN: Should my site support Windows XP? by beerbaron23 on Monday November 13, 2017 @06:31AM (#15685721)
I'm guessing people still running XP are running Firefox or Chrome anyways, I'm not sure if IE8 can even render most pages on the internet. That would be like trying to surf the net with Firefox 3.5 :O
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