Google cuts off Chrome updates on Windows XP and Vista
Windows XP will be getting even less secure next year, when Google stops updating Chrome for users of Microsoft's nearly geriatric operating system.
The company announced today that PCs running XP and Vista will be able to keep using Chrome after April 2016, but Google will cease providing updates to its browser, including security-focused patches. That same deal goes for Mac users running OS 10.6, 10.7 and 10.8.
Google said it was turning off the updates because the makers of all five OSs had stopped providing official support for them.
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