Old Windows PC Users Will No Longer get Google Drive Support
In August, Google will discontinue its assistance for “Drive for desktop” on Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, and all 32-bit versions of Windows, according to an announcement.
“To avoid service interruption, Windows users should upgrade to Windows 10 (64-bit) or later before August 2023,” Google said on the support page.
The company also said that users of the 32-bit version of Windows will still be able to access Google Drive through a browser.
In April of this year, the company had limited the number of files that users could create and save in Google Drive.
Now users can create up to five million files in Drive.
According to Google spokesman Ross Richendrfer, the goal of this change is to “maintain strong performance and reliability” and help prevent “abuse” of the company’s systems.
Meanwhile, the company had introduced a “search circles” feature for Drive, which allows users to filter by things like file type, owner and last modified date in any web app.
