Google Chrome 50 drops support for Windows XP

Stefan Mileschin · 15th April 2016, 15:53

Just this week we reported on the continued post-support life of Windows XP, and now Google is distancing itself from the aging OS, too. Version 50 of Google’s Chrome browser, which released yesterday, drops support for Windows XP as well as Windows Vista. Google is also putting support for older versions of Apple’s OS X on the end-of-life chopping block. Versions 10.6, 10.7, and 10.8 of OS X will stop receiving Chrome updates after version 49.

This end-of-life includes a pretty sizeable group of PCs. These OSes together account for about 13 percent of OS market share, according to Netmarketshare . Windows XP represents the lion's share of soon-to-be-unsupported Chrome users at about 11 percent. There's still some good ...

http://techreport.com/news/29989/goo...for-windows-xp

15th April 2016, 15:53	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 148,462	Google Chrome 50 drops support for Windows XP Just this week we reported on the continued post-support life of Windows XP, and now Google is distancing itself from the aging OS, too. Version 50 of Google’s Chrome browser, which released yesterday, drops support for Windows XP as well as Windows Vista. Google is also putting support for older versions of Apple’s OS X on the end-of-life chopping block. Versions 10.6, 10.7, and 10.8 of OS X will stop receiving Chrome updates after version 49. This end-of-life includes a pretty sizeable group of PCs. These OSes together account for about 13 percent of OS market share, according to Netmarketshare . Windows XP represents the lion's share of soon-to-be-unsupported Chrome users at about 11 percent. There's still some good ... http://techreport.com/news/29989/goo...for-windows-xp

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