Google has announced that it will stop supporting Windows XP and Windows Vista, as of April 2016. At the same time Chrome also are no longer supported on OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), 10.7 (Lion) and 10.8 (Mountain Lion ). According to Google they doing this to encourage the user to switch to a system which or are supported by their creators (in this case Microsoft and Apple).
” From April 2016 Chrome will still continue to work on these platforms (XP, Vista, OS X 10.6 t / m 10.8) but will get no updates and no security updates / fixes. If you’re still using one of these unsupported platforms, we recommend you to switch to a newer operating system “- Marc Pawliger (Chrome director of engineering at Google)
Not to urge
It seems that Google joins tidy makers, or it’s not that Google this move put before the creator of the operating system has disposed of it. Microsoft has pulled the plug XP (although some years back), and in 2012 it pulled the plug on the overall support of Windows Vista. Windows Vista has an extended support until April 2017.
So if you want to keep working on your old operating system, you can do but it is your choice for a browser that remains secure and support a bit smaller. Mozilla Firefox and Opera only remain open if great choices.
More and more insecure
According to security company Bitdefender Windows XP is still very widely used by small and medium businesses. Also, many institutes and organizations in the public sector of Eastern Europe make much use of the old system. If we look at the figures from NetMarketShare (published earlier this month), we see that XP still has a market share of 12 percent. That is a larger market share than Windows 10 is currently (8 percent)!
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