Google Drive no longer usable on older Windows versions

On January 10 of this yr, Microsoft itself ended assist for Home windows 8, Home windows 8.1 and Home windows 7. In any case, it requires quite a lot of assets to proceed to supply older programs (which use a distinct construction) with the newest updates and to make sure that that they proceed to operate correctly with particular functions, comparable to Google Drive.

To be clear, that is the consumer model of Google Drive, which lets you synchronize recordsdata within the Google Drive folder of Home windows Explorer together with your cloud recordsdata. After all you possibly can nonetheless use the net model of Google Drive to add or obtain recordsdata.

Home windows 10 assist may also be misplaced

It needs to be famous that assist for Home windows 10 is already there terminated is turning into. That may occur someplace within the second half of 2023. It solely considerations the 32-bit model of the working system. It makes use of RAM much less effectively than the 64-bit model of Home windows 10 (which might divide the RAM into 64 ‘compartments’).

Though your Google Drive will have the ability to proceed to make use of the browser, additional assist doesn’t essentially rely upon Microsoft. Along with Edge, Google Chrome has already dropped assist for Home windows 8 gadgets. Mozilla Firefox will wait somewhat longer, till September 2024. Apple customers will need to have no less than macOS 10.15.7 to proceed utilizing the Google Drive app.

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