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Why on earth are you still running Windows XP?
by groovy2shoes 11y ago
Why on earth are you still running Windows XP?
- schoen 11y agoMore likely a matter of having a site that has a lot of users who are still running it.
- vsl 11y agoOr an application… Exactly that.
- waskosky 11y agoI haven't met many of these people to ask them, but I know they still exist because of their user agent containing "Windows NT 5.1" and I know for sure they aren't all bots, and many of them even live in Southern California. I suspect these are the people who would be most confused by websites failing to load. The cost of providing support then is much greater than the cost of a Comodo certificate.
- groovy2shoes 11y agoI see. It's a shame you can't intercept the error and display your own along the lines of "upgrade your damn OS already!"
- bad_user 11y agoIt's not the OS, just Internet Explorer. And an upgrade to the OS isn't free.
- vsl 11y agoAre you sure about that? I assumed it would be affecting SSL verification in WinInet/WinHTTP (and so affect any applications using that stack)...
- bitJericho 11y agoPlease don't do that. Workers at large companies often have no choice
- groovy2shoes 11y agoI can sort of understand a handful of rather lazy and/or incompetent users insisting on continuing to use a 15-year-old OS, which was replaced a decade ago, and has not been supported by the vendor for 2 years. Large companies have no excuse.
- bitJericho 11y agoYes, so banning all their employees from buying what your selling seems like a grand idea!