The abandonment of outdated versions of Windows by important applications continues, and the next step is Google Drive, whose support in Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 has its days numbered. By the way, nothing new under the sun, and that is that Google’s cloud file storage service said goodbye to Windows 7 already earlier this year.

If Windows 7 ran out of Google Drive in January, Windows 8 and 8.1 will do so in August, so they barely have a month and a half left to live. That is, full life, enjoying maintenance or, what is the same thing, updates. It is not known whether the applications will continue to work for some time, but the experience so far does not give hope in this regard.

In this regard, it should be recalled that Windows 8 remained without official support in 2016, more than seven years ago, while Windows 8.1 followed in January of this year after ending its standard support five years earlier, in January 2018. Who will endure in either of these versions, his is the cross.

However, this is not the only upcoming end of support coming to Google Drive as a client also says goodbye to Windows 10 32-bit in the same terms. And despite everything, Windows 10 has support until 2025 in its two editions, for 32 and 64 bits. However, it seems that part of the industry wants to get rid of the maintenance of the old architecture.

Of course, when we talk about Google Drive, we mean the desktop client. Anyone can continue to access the service through a web browser, although it is also advisable to take precautions in this regard: Microsoft Edge withdrew its support in January and Chrome did so in March; only Firefox is resisting and trying to scrape the remains of the quota that nobody wants and will do so until September 2024.

Of course, the applications that leave support for old versions of Windows, and there are a lot of them, as we gathered in recent years, are mainly aimed at Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, since Windows 8 is considered amortized already quite a lot. Some time. The Google Drive thing is an anomaly. In any case, be prepared if you are in this situation because it becomes untenable.

Try the free upgrade to Windows 10 and if not, buy a license and reinstall the system. Take advantage of the fact that you have them from 12 euros, a ridiculous price. And from there, you can now upgrade to Windows 11 for free. What if your computer can’t handle it? Either you restore it, or you continue to consume an outdated version of Windows that compromises your security… or you try Linux.