On: Extending Chrome support for XP users until April 2015

[JimmaDaRustla]

Even Steve Gibson upgraded. I really scratch my head at this, unless Google is trying to increase browser market share in China?

[McGlockenshire → JimmaDaRustla]

"If I can't convince Grandma to buy a new computer, at least I can have her use Chrome instead of IE."

[JimmaDaRustla → McGlockenshire]

True, but its not like the current versions of Chrome on XP are terrible or insecure.

I know one person out of hundreds who use XP...but market share states that it is in the 33% mark? Where are these people?

[qdog → JimmaDaRustla]

I have a laptop that runs XP, I'm unlikely to upgrade it until it dies. I don't do anything on it that requires a newer OS, so not sure why I'd pay the $$ to upgrade until I get/need a new laptop.

[joe_bleau → JimmaDaRustla]

I still run XP and 2k. I need it to support hardware that does not have a 64 bit driver. (It might be possible to run under win7 32 bit, but I've not tried.)

[aroch → JimmaDaRustla]

Institutions and China. ~60% of our lab computers run XP because there are software packages that we use that are broken under Win7+