Mozilla will completely drop Firefox for Windows XP and Vista in June 2018

Mozilla today announced that it will completely drop support for Firefox on Windows XP and Windows Vista in June 2018. Firefox users on those two platforms can expect security updates until then, but they should make an effort to upgrade Windows sooner rather than later. When Mozilla released Firefox 53 in April 2017, it no […]

Windows XP, Vista buried by Blizzard

Enlarge / Appropriately enough, I don’t see the Blizzard Launcher on this familiar Windows XP desktop image… If you’re using an operating system that’s over a decade old to play Blizzard games, we have some bad news for you. Starting in October, Blizzard says it will “begin the process of ending support for Windows XP […]

Windows 10 gets major update as Windows Vista reaches its end of life

Windows Vista’s Start menu and its integrated Search box. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Today Windows Update sees the first mainstream release of the Windows 10 Creators Update and the last public patches, ever, for Windows Vista. Released to manufacturing on November 8, 2006 and shipping to consumers on January 30, 2007, Windows Vista had a troubled development […]