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League Of Legends To Drop Windows XP Support Next Year

League Of Legends Drops XP

Microsoft has officially abandoned Windows XP for around 4 years now. How time flies, right? Despite that though, it seems that many companies have decided to stick with it for a lot longer. For example, Steam has announced that they will only be ending support for both Vista and XP in early 2019. Quite a gap for such a popular platform.

It seems, however, that League of Legends is another one to shortly follow suit.

In a report via PCGamesN, League of Legends is set to officially abandon Windows XP in May 2019.

The Figures Speak For Themselves!

Developer Riot Games has said that following a review of the user O/S figures, less than 1% of the current player base still uses Windows XP. As such, their decision to finally end support does make more than a little sense. It is, after all, a bit of a chore to ensure a Windows XP friendly release. Particularly one that’s secure. Not to mention that all that work would be for just 1% of your player base.

Will 2019 Be The Official End Of Windows XP?

With yet another company announcing their abandonment of Windows XP, it seems a fairly safe conclusion that 2019 may mark the year in which the operating system is officially abandoned. As above, given that Microsoft officially did this over 4 years ago, it seems a bit weird that it took so many others so long to join suit.

Well, either way, the short version is that if you are one of the 1%, you’ve got to think about making the change. As great as Windows XP was, all good things must come to an end!

What do you think? Which operating system do you use? – Let us know in the comments!

Mike Sanders

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