Windows XP and Vista Long Term Support Plan

[Chris Hutten-Czapski]

(( There may actually be weak evidence in support of Windows XP users
coming to Firefox in recent months, but that almost doesn't matter. ))

Could we encourage the upgrade of users? We can tell, say, via an addon,
whether the user's computer is completely unable to run anything beyond
Windows XP. Can we offer to "just" ship them a new computer with Firefox
installed? Partner with Linux user groups, computer access charities... we
have a lot of friends, can we get enough of them together to make this
positive difference on the Web?

Chris

On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 11:32 AM, Gervase Markham <gerv at mozilla.org> wrote:

> On 13/10/16 16:28, Peter Dolanjski wrote:
> > We should obviously do our best to explain things to the user, but we
> > definitely need to keep in mind that the average user will likely not
> > take any action.
>
> I think the principle from Ezekiel 33 applies very well here:
>
> The word of the Lord came to [Ezekiel]: "Son of man, speak to your
> people and tell them: Suppose I bring the sword against a land, and the
> people of that land select a man from among them, appointing him as
> their watchman, and he sees the sword coming against the land and blows
> his trumpet to warn the people. Then, if anyone hears the sound of the
> trumpet but ignores the warning, and the sword comes and takes him away,
> his blood will be on his own head. Since he heard the sound of the
> trumpet but ignored the warning, his blood is on his own hands. If he
> had taken warning, he would have saved his life. However, if the
> watchman sees the sword coming but doesn’t blow the trumpet, so that the
> people aren’t warned, and the sword comes and takes away their lives,
> then they have been taken away because of their iniquity, but I will
> hold the watchman accountable for their blood."
> https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=ezekiel+33&version=HCSB
>
> We are responsible for warning; users are responsible for taking action.
>
> Gerv
>
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