While the changelog does not mention it, I believe it is related to the Adobe bug that has floating the Internet the last few days.
While the wording on the Chrome > Help screen says "will no longer receive updates" instead of the previous "will soon stop receiving updates", version. Just for the record, support on XP isn't dead yet. These machines are just too old for connecting to our actual Web and access all the features it provides. Any machine older than a P4/AMD64 will not support completely a Chrome build anyways, as these CPUs lack SSE2, necessary for Google PNG/JPG/MP4/WebM built-in-browser decoders and the Javascript VM. In any case, is possible to run well enough Win7 in Pentium 4+ and Athlon64 PCs, proving that you give to them enough ram. Since Google isn't interested to keep a branch without these optimizations, and compiled with old VS versions, only to support a already unsuported OSs, they just decided to ditch entirely support for these versions.
Google probably also wants to use some new features included with the runtime and the new VS compilers so some stuff can be done easier and more optimized for new Windows Operating System, but this will break the unsupported Vista.
Just check all the apps produced with newer versions of Visual Studio C/C++ compiler and linked to new versions of Runtime, none of them will work with XP. X010 wrote:Is there anything that Chrome needs that would need extra work to support on Windows Vista than Windows 7?Ĭompiler and library linking. Vista was 2007 - 2009 with left over inventory disappearing in 2010 at retail level so anyone in this category is going to have a 5+ year old machine anyway that has anywhere from 512MB to 4GB of RAM an old tired hard drive and anything from an AMD Sempron or P4 single core to a highish end core 2 duo / quad depending on purchase date so probably needs to just upgrade. The later aren't going to update things properly anyway and realistically, are probably going to replace their Vista boxes when they die or become too unusable. Realistically, the Vista user base is going to be tech savvy people who can use another browser and who are intentionally sticking to Vista on one side and then people with little technical knowledge who may not even have Chrome installed intentionally on the other. It is similar to 7 but 7 does support more things thanks to the platform update etc and even if it still will work fine they may be planning something that isn't supported by Vista or needs updates and they don't want the hassle. Matriks404 wrote:XP, I know is obsolete in terms of API, but why they ditched support for Vista? It is nearly the same operating system as Windows 7.īecause the user base probably isn't big enough to keep support going for Vista.
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