Chrome Will End XP Support in 2015; Firefox Has No Plans To Stop

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @01:28AM from the dragged-into-the-same-grave dept.

Billly Gates writes "Microsoft is ending support for Windows XP in 2014. Fortunately for its users who want to keep browsing the web, Google is continuing to support Chrome until at least 2015. Firefox has no current plans to end support for XP. Hopefully this will delay the dreaded XPopacalypse — the idea that a major virus/worm/trojan will take down millions of systems that haven't been issued security patches. When these browsers finally do end XP support, does it mean webmasters will need to write seperate versions of CSS and JavaScript for older versions if the user base refuses to leave Windows XP (as happened with IE6)?" Update: 10/29 17:31 GMT by S : Changed headline and summary to reflect that Mozilla doesn't have plans to drop XP support any time soon.

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F$CK UNITY! err, wait, what?!... by Thud457 · 2013-10-29 01:49 · Score: 4, Insightful

As soon as Micr$oft comes up with a better version, we'll start using it.

Lousy goddamned Fisher-Price tabletized piece of crap. This is a real big-boy computer I use to get real work done on, not some damn device for consuming BookFace and MeToobe videos. Plus there's no signed W7 driver for the lab control interface card. Mabel II would be very unhappy if that stopped working.

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the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff