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by waste_monk 407 days ago
>You can never imagine how many people are still using WinXP

XP still has 0.38% of market share (specifically Windows non-mobile platforms) according to [1], not sure about absolute numbers.

>If you remove 3DES, the TLS connection will simply fail.

Strong backwards compatibility is great, but continuing to run XP 10+ years after EOL is a personal choice and its remaining users should not expect the world to continue to accomodate them forever. I don't think it's unreasonable to deny them service in this case.

[1] https://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/windows/d...
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zzq1015 407 days ago
0.38% of what?

For sites like Google, it's still too large to ignore.

Also, a fun fact: Google still serves plain HTTP for really old clients, just in case the client barely supports HTTPS.

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waste_monk 407 days ago
>0.38% of what?

Machines visiting sites with statcounter tracking widgets (and presumably not running with scripts/cookies disabled etc. ).

That works out to be ~5ish million internet connected XP machines, apparently[1].

>For sites like Google, it's still too large to ignore.

They do this sort of thing all the time [2]. IIRC Reader still had several million users when it got the axe.

[1] https://www.computerworld.com/article/2091600/youre-not-real...

[2] https://killedbygoogle.com/

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