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 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.
“Such older platforms are missing critical security updates and have a greater potential to be infected by viruses and malware,” Chrome Director of Engineering Mark Pawliger said in a blog post announcing the decision.
