14 DAY TRIAL // Windows XP will be discontinued next year in April, but the most popular browsers on the market will continue to support it beyond this date.
Security expert Graham Cluley believes that this is a very risky decision, as browsers should be the ones telling users to upgrade to a newer platform.
“At the very least, browsers [should take it] upon themselves to spot that they are running on Windows XP and display a big fat ‘Woah! You're running an out-of-date way-old operating system. It's not really safe for you to be on the net like this. Learn more here…’ message when they start up, that users have to acknowledge each time they run,” he told PC Pro in a statement.
Windows XP continues to be the world’s number two operating system, as it’s powering more than 30 percent of the computers out there, according to Net Applications data.