
That said, people still love their PowerBooks and Power Macs, and this change is likely going to hurt for those folks who want to keep browsing like it's 2005. Those computers are stuck on OS 10.6.8, because it's the last version of the OS that Apple put out which is compatible with those processors. This is also especially bad news for people who want to keep old Macs with PowerPC processors running.


Navy) haven't completely made the jump yet. Microsoft ended support for XP last year, but some organizations ( including the U.S. Microsoft's operating system, while more than a decade old, is still clinging to life on computers in homes and organizations large and small. Google said earlier this year that it planned to stop supporting old operating systems, and called out XP in particular as a problem.

"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.
