I&#x27;m not sure why you are being downvoted. There are a lot of people still on Windows XP, Windows Vista, OS X 10.6, OS X 10.7 and OS X 10.8. This is  dropping support for about 14% of all desktops. That&#x27;s a lot of people.<p>It&#x27;s especially irresponsible that &quot;Chrome will continue to function on these platforms but will no longer receive updates and security fixes&quot;. They should be strongly encouraging those users to switch to a browser that&#x27;s still supported on those platforms (which is probably only Firefox at this point).<p>Given Google&#x27;s stance on autoupdating to be consistent they really should be pushing out a final update that prevents Chrome from running on those machines. A policy of &quot;autoupdate till we don&#x27;t care about you anymore&quot; undermines the entire idea of automatically updating browsers.