Software developers often face a number of issues that are common across the board. The continuing requirement to maintain, support, and produce updates for that software on a growing number of operating systems can chew up resources and provide compatibility issues that can be detrimental to the user-experience. To that end, Google has announced today that it will discontinue Google Chrome support across a number of older operating systemsincluding Windows and OS X; a change that will come into effect in April, 2016.
The announced changes will affect those PC-users who have opted not to upgrade to the latest Windows 10, 8, or 7 OS, instead opting to continue using Windows XP or Vista as their main desktop or laptop operating system. Microsoft officially discontinued support for the once extremely popular Windows XP back in April of 2014, but Google vowed to continue releasing Chrome fixes, patches and updates until the end of this calendar year. It seemed that the developer of Chrome wanted those XP users to “have the option to use a browser that’s up-to-date and as safe as possible on an unsupported operating system”.
Source : REDMONPIE.COM