Chrome, at the end of support for Windows XP, Vista and other old operating systems
Google announced that it is ending support for Chrome operating systems considered obsolete: these include the evergreen Windows XP, Vista and Mac OS X 10.8 and earlier.
In a few months, Chrome will no longer receive updates of any nature of some of the older operating systems. The announcement was the same Google that, in order to dispose of the internal work on updates of its popular web browser, will begin to exclude older versions of Windows and Mac OS X from the list of supported software. From April 2016, Chrome will no longer be supported on:
- Windows XP
- Windows Vista
- Mac OS X 10.6
- Mac OS X 10.7
- Mac OS X 10.8
Chrome will naturally continue to work on systems that run these operating systems, but its use is highly discouraged. Web browsers are among the most sensitive to any software vulnerabilities, and as such are often updated to fix new security flaws discovered. A web browser is not updated jeopardizes the whole system and large part of the data that we use online.
The evergreen Windows XP receives a new reference in stop updates. It is still used on a number of machines around the world and Google has not yet managed to pull the plug on timeless OS of Microsoft. His support would cease in April 2014, later date postponed to April 2015, and again at the end of 2015. Support for Chrome, however, will last a few more months, until next April.
Mac side, Apple continues to support usually the last three operating systems. Official support for the 10.8 ended with the release of El Capitan (10.11) and versions 10.6 and 10.7 are no longer supported for some time. The only operating system supported by the developer at which Chrome will end support is Windows Vista (Microsoft will support him until April 2017), probably because of the low uptake.
