These holdouts will perhaps be disappointed to hear that Chrome updates are being discontinued, but in fairness even Microsoft called time on its security patches for XP back in 2014.Ĭhrome will still work on these unsupported platforms, but this kind of usage really isn’t an ideal scenario. Legacy versions of Microsoft’s flagship OS still manage to retain plenty of market share, as evidenced by figures released in early 2016 which showed that Windows XP still held a slight lead over Windows 10.

Back in November 2015, the company announced that no further updates or security fixes would be offered on XP or Vista from April of 2016 - and it has to be said that its timing couldn’t have been much more exact. Google gave users plenty of warning that this change was coming. Windows XP and Windows Vista are no longer supported, and neither are OS X 10.6, 10.7, and 10.8 on the other side of the Mac-PC divide.

Pixinoo/123rfA stable release of Google Chrome version 50 was distributed yesterday, and with it support for a number of legacy operating systems was removed from the Web browser.

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