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Thread-Topic: [Bitcoin-development] Warning message when running wallet in
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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Warning message when running wallet in
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It may not be our place to say whether XP is secure or not, but if we =
say that we support it then we have to run test passes against XP as a =
platform, and if an XP user reports a bug, then we have to do something =
to address it.  So, it becomes a test and support issue, not a security =
issue.

That=92s why it doesn=92t make sense to support an OS platform that the =
original vendor (MS) no longer supports themselves.

On Apr 16, 2014, at 9:35 AM, Mark Friedenbach <mark@monetize.io> wrote:

> On 04/16/2014 09:27 AM, Kevin wrote:
>> Should we then add an alert message to wallet installers such as, =
"Such
>> and such will not run on windows xp?"
>=20
> It's not really our place to police that ... plus it's perfectly safe =
to
> be running Bitcoin Core as a full node on XP. It's just the wallet
> functionality that people should be careful about. We're talking about
> such a small intersection of people who are running XP, have systems
> powerful enough to run Bitcoin Core, and use the wallet functionality.
>=20
> =
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