Chrome will stop supporting XP, Vista and early OS X this year

[Chiefcrowe]

http://www.engadget.com/2015/11/10/chrome-will-stop-supporting-xp-vista-and-early-os-x-this-year

 

[lxskllr]

Wonder if you can try your luck, and install newer versions, or if it'll be actively blocked. The former is reasonable. The latter is a dick move.

 

[Mem]

Bit harsh on Vista considering EOL is not until 11 April 2017.

I use FF anyway on 10 so does not concern me but surprised they are dropping support for Vista so quick, it may be getting a bit old now, but is decent with SP2 etc and still supported until 2017 by Microsoft.

XP I can understand being a dead OS that even Microsoft have officially ended awhile back.

 

[Ham n' Eggs]

I suppose that chrome users will switch to firefox or palemoon on the older win OS's.
I don't see this triggering people to get a newer version of Windows though

 

[postmortemIA]

Bit harsh on Vista considering EOL is not until 11 April 2017.

I use FF anyway on 10 so does not concern me but surprised they are dropping support for Vista so quick, it may be getting a bit old now, but is decent with SP2 etc and still supported until 2017 by Microsoft.

XP I can understand being a dead OS that even Microsoft have officially ended awhile back.

Yep, Vista is pretty much same as Windows 7. Even supports DX11. It is not like they need bunch of platform specific code like they do for XP. It is more thing of that Vista has about 3% of market share

 

[TheRyuu]

Wonder if you can try your luck, and install newer versions, or if it'll be actively blocked. The former is reasonable. The latter is a dick move.

It'll probably be use at your own risk and as compatibility stuff is removed it'll stop working. I don't know if they'll outright block it but it will be unusable by virtue of the removal of XP/Vista compat stuff (since I assume it'll be treated as "unused code"). On Vista however it may take longer for it to stop working since a lot of the stuff is largely the same from Vista onwards that would matter here IIRC.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Bit harsh on Vista considering EOL is not until 11 April 2017.

Yeah, really. I know someone that is a big Chrome fan / user, that is currently on a slightly older Core2-era PC with Vista. I helped him upgrade with 8GB of RAM, a small SSD, and a fresh re-install of Vista. He's not going to be happy to hear that Chrome is dropping support for his PC, when it does everything else that he needs it to do.

Edit: He got a laptop, that came with Windows 8.1 w/Bing recently, and then upgraded to Win10. He decided that he doesn't like Win10, but didn't make a restore USB stick when it had 8.1 w/Bing on it. And I've been hearing, that there's no official download for Win8.1 w/Bing ISOs.

 

[sbpromania]

Windows XP still has around 13% market share. Maybe this move from Google will result in a market share drop for Chrome, but I guess that they did this after some good researches.

 

[Puffnstuff]

Running vista and xp are like driving a car with square wheels.

 

[Mem]

Running vista and xp are like driving a car with square wheels.

To be fair Vista has security improvements over XP and is still officially supported, you and I may no longer use it, but there are still users out there that do.

Google Chrome is not helping the situation at all, so you are probably better off having a go at them.

 

[QuietDad]

Have to remember the "Every other" release model of Microsoft.

Windows 3.1 (the begining)
Windows 95 (short lived, buggy trying new things)
Windows 98 (Rock solid forever)
Windows ME (short lived, Worst operating system Ever)
Windows XP (Rock solid forever)
Windows Vista (short lived, buggy)
Windows 7 (Rock solid forever)
Windows 8/8.1 (Short lived attempt at making a PC look like a cell phone)
Windows 10 (The next rock solid forever?)

 

[Mem]

Have to remember the "Every other" release model of Microsoft.

Windows 3.1 (the begining)
Windows 95 (short lived, buggy trying new things)
Windows 98 (Rock solid forever)
Windows ME (short lived, Worst operating system Ever)
Windows XP (Rock solid forever)
Windows Vista (short lived, buggy)
Windows 7 (Rock solid forever)
Windows 8/8.1 (Short lived attempt at making a PC look like a cell phone)
Windows 10 (The next rock solid forever?)

I wish some people would stop using this analogy, it's really pure FUD, I say that as having used every Microsoft OS over the decades, the only really bad one was WinME.

Btw you forgot the different Win95(A,B,C ETC) and 98 versions (SE).

Guess that throws your release listing out the Window.

XP was not rock solid, don't you remember how bad it was before SP1.

Getting back on topic, it'll be interesting to see how long Google Chrome supports Win7.

 

[Insert_Nickname]

XP was not rock solid, don't you remember how bad it was before SP1.

The RTM version of XP was a mess, especially compared to Win2K.

SP1 was a step in the right direction, but XP only became really good with SP2.

 

[QuietDad]

Just saying that Microsoft has a History of trying something new, then getting it right. I, too, have used them all and have been a Technet subscriber since day one. They're still trying to get a single Windows Kernel from the old 3.1/NT server 4.0 days

 

[Puffnstuff]

He forgot 3.11 for workgroups which was a good os in its day. I still remember writing my own dialup scripts to connect to my isp.

 

[gevorg]

Windows NT was pretty awesome

 

[QuietDad]

Windows for Workgroups was just the 3.1 kernel with ODBC and the network software necessary for sharing files, printers, OLE objects, and DDE data with other WFW-equipped
computers or with Microsoft LAN Manager-compatible network clients or
servers. It contains an improved user interface including configuration
options for use with LAN Manager or NetWare servers, with its own server
functionality available on an Intel 80386-based or higher processor.
In fact you could buy it as a full install of as a 3.1 upgrade.

Wasn't really "new" but it was my favorite of all of them. God I miss Novell.

 

[nemesismk2]

i don't care about no google chrome for windows xp because firefox 42 is working great with no crashes at all.

 

[nemesismk2]

Windows XP still has around 13% market share. Maybe this move from Google will result in a market share drop for Chrome, but I guess that they did this after some good researches.

i can see a market share drop for google chrome too and everyone should be using mozilla firefox instead especially with windows xp.

 

[Insert_Nickname]

i don't care about no google chrome for windows xp because firefox 42 is working great with no crashes at all.

You should try the x64 version of FF42. Very fast and stable.

 

[bbhaag]

He forgot 3.11 for workgroups which was a good os in its day. I still remember writing my own dialup scripts to connect to my isp.

I love my WFW 3.11/MS-DOS 6.22 machine. I still fire it up on a weekly basis just to putz around. Join IRC or Usenet maybe play a few games like DOTT or Doom or Simcity.

It was a great OS and still is IMO.


Getting back on topic though. I am also surprised they're dropping support for Vista. I skipped it but from from what I've read it's a decent OS very similar to 7.

 

[Puffnstuff]

Vista was pure bloatware and I was happy to replace it with 7 ultimate x64 as soon as I could get my hands on a copy of it.

 

[bbhaag]

Was it bloated? I'm not sure like I said I skipped it. I still like your feelings about WFW 3.11 though. It's a great OS. If you have any of those old .bat (scripts) files around I'd love to have them.

EDIT:To clarify. Older computers are a hobby of mine. Right now I'm tinkering with a AMD 486DX2-66. Please don't take my posts the wrong way because I am not trying to be sarcastic or contriving.

 

[Puffnstuff]

Unfortunately I don't have anything from that era anymore. The batch files were simple enough to create with the last line being a load winsock command and it all started with the familiar @echo off. I eventually invested in a third party dialer which I used until 95 debuted with a built in dialer. I sure don't miss dialup internet nor do I miss the pre graphics htm era where everything was a simple ascii interface via unix.

 

[postmortemIA]

Was it bloated? I'm not sure like I said I skipped it. I still like your feelings about WFW 3.11 though. It's a great OS. If you have any of those old .bat (scripts) files around I'd love to have them.

EDIT:To clarify. Older computers are a hobby of mine. Right now I'm tinkering with a AMD 486DX2-66. Please don't take my posts the wrong way because I am not trying to be sarcastic or contriving.

Have you tried running these old OSes in VM? Microsoft's Virtual PC has decent support for 3.11 and NT 4.0