What Should I Do, If Anything, About This?

[sandyRoe]

Earlier this year, we announced that Google Chrome would continue support for Windows XP through the remainder of 2015. At that time, we strongly encouraged users on older, unsupported platforms such as Windows XP to update to a supported, secure operating system. Such older platforms are missing critical security updates and have a greater potential to be infected by viruses and malware.
Today, we’re announcing the end of Chrome’s support for Windows XP, as well as Windows Vista, and Mac OS X 10.6, 10.7, and 10.8, since these platforms are no longer actively supported by Microsoft and Apple. Starting April 2016, Chrome will continue to function on these platforms but will no longer receive updates and security fixes.
If you are still on one of these unsupported platforms, we encourage you to move to a newer operating system to ensure that you continue to receive the...

[Old_Geezer]

Depends on what you are running and whether you are happy with an unsupported OS if you have one.

You could always cry if you like.

[sandyRoe]

I'm using Vista and as it's not broke no need to fix it, then?

[Old_Geezer]

You could take that attitude, but no further support means that as the bad guys find vulnerabilities MS ain't going to patch them for you. Now ditto applies to Chrome, except worse, they say their browser won't run at all. But you could use another browser if one of the others still support Vista.

Personally I don't like getting out of support. I don't upgrade for the fun of it as I think it has more than an element of pushing you into paying more again for much the same thing as you already had. (In a perfect world it would never need updates and work fully secure from day one.) But in practice getting patches and retaining compatibility is important.

You could find you run out of browser options that will work properly eventually. Might be time to buy into Win7 and get a "free" upgrade to Win10 ?

[Old_Geezer]

Professional editions of Windows 10 get a “Defer upgrades” option in the Advanced options interface.

You may wish to check which Win7 version upgrades to a professional version of Win10.

[hc4361]

Firefox is still supporting XP