Microsoft officially ended the life cycle of the Windows 8.1 operating system on January 10 this year, that is, it no longer provides technical support and software updates. Now, software manufacturers and developers have also begun to abandon support for the system, including Google.
Google Drive, Google’s cloud storage service, recently announced on its support page that it will officially end support for the desktop version of its application for the Win 8 and Win 8.1 operating systems starting this August. Users who want to avoid service interruptions should consider upgrading to Windows 10 as soon as possible.
Google said that the desktop app allows users to keep all their local folders in sync with the cloud, and users who want to continue to keep them in sync in real-time will have to update their systems.
In addition, Google will also stop supporting the Google Drive desktop app on all 32-bit Windows systems later this year, and that includes 32-bit Windows 10 systems.
Google has ended Chrome support for Win7, Win8 and Win8.1 systems in February this year, and Google is expected to end support for these older systems soon.
