Mozilla announced in a press release that in 2017 they will stop the support Internet browser Firefox For operating systems Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista.
“We expect to continue to provide security updates for [Windows XP and Windows Vista] users until September 2017,"
It is not known with certainty how many users in the world use the Windows XP operating system on computers, but it is definitely Windows Vista, being almost non -existent, being the weakest / bad operating system created in Microsoft history.
There are statistics companies, which have estimated at a maximum of 4 % computers with Windows XP and below 1 % those running Vista. These were the figures at mid-2016, but until the summer of 2017, when Mozilla will withdraw the support for Firefox, it is very possible that Windows Vista will be almost non-existent on the PCs in the world.
With Windows XP, it is a slightly more delicate problem. Although it is an older system than Windows Vista, the XP was the operating system that made history, being used on a very wide scale for many years. Public, research and education institutions are still using Windows XP PCs. In order to support them, Mozilla will launch in March 2017, a versionFirefox Extended Support Release (ESR).
The ESR will be a firefox that will still receive security updates (as much as the architecture of the operating system allows) but will not benefit from new functions and innovations. It will be a simple browsing version, without too much claims, but enough for institutions. This ESR version will remain in operation for about a year. This practice was also adopted by Microsoft with the program:Windows 10 Long Term Servicing Branch (LTSB).
With this ad, Mozilla encourages users to use the newest versions of Microsoft.
“We strongly encourage our users to upgrade to a version of Windows that is supported by Microsoft"
Even if we are sometimes more conservative, we must admit that technology evolves quite a lot and enough, and to keep up with it, it is often a necessity.
