There Will no Longer Support Chrome Browser on Older OS X, Windows XP and Vista.
Google has announced that, there will no longer support Chrome Browser on older OS X, Windows XP and Vista. There will be no longer updates like security holes etc.. available on Microsoft’s Windows XP and Vista, as well as Apple’s Mac OS X 10.6, 10.7 and 10.8 devices.
Google has announced that, there will no longer support Chrome Browser on older OS X, Windows XP and Vista.
There will be no longer updates like security holes etc.. available on Microsoft’s Windows XP and Vista, as well as Apple’s Mac OS X 10.6, 10.7 and 10.8 devices.Google explained that these Operating systems will not be supported “since these platforms are no longer actively supported by Microsoft and Apple.”
As a note, Microsoft has committed to supporting Vista until April 2017, but Google says, “Such older platforms are missing critical security updates and have a greater potential to be infected by viruses and malware.”
Chrome will still be fully functional after Google ends support for the browser on these Operating Systems, but with no updates or security fixes incoming after April next year, Google is urging users to upgrade their operating systems.
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Yusuf Demir
Yusuf Demir is the Cloud & Software Reporter at TrendinTech, where he covers cloud infrastructure, enterprise platforms, developer tools and the digital transformation of businesses in the UK and the United States. He previously reported on enterprise technology for The Register in London and covered the cloud and SaaS beat for TechCrunch, following the competition between AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, the open source licensing disputes and the rise of Kubernetes. Yusuf holds an MEng in Computing from Imperial College London and speaks regularly at KubeCon and AWS re:Invent, where he moderates conversations with engineers and chief technology officers. He is most interested in the gap between vendor roadmaps and the systems engineers actually run, and in what the cloud bill looks like once the free credits expire.
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