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The only thing missing is the warning at the top that says not all features will work with your old version of Chrome.

How do I know? Because I'm still one of the last people on Win XP at work. FML.

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> Because I'm still one of the last people on Win XP at work

Wow, if you are in the US you should file a complaint with OSHA: https://www.osha.gov/workers/file_complaint.html

Is using an outdated version of windows grounds for a complaint?

I don't know much about the OSHA standards, but I thought it was primarily about the safety of the lives of the workers. What part of their standard does old OS violate?

Using XP is bad for your (mental) health, and if you try to store sensitive information on it then it's also bad for your social and financial health too.

If you pay you can still get support and security updates. It’s just outrageously expensive.

You must be great at parties

We have to use it sometimes because nobody can figure out how to get our Delphi 7 environment running on Windows 7.

I feel your pain.

I've installed Delphi 7 on my Windows 7 at the time, ran really good and kept developing code as normal.

Then eventually that same laptop got upgraded to Windows 10 and this same Delphi kept working as expected (compile, edit, ..).

Maybe your colleagues can try to install it with the UAC disabled?

I think it has something to do with the 3rd party libs we're using.

Have you tried to compile with Lazarus/Freepascal?

I did a while back, but I don't remember what the problem was.

Sorry about that, but Chrome auto updates for almost everyone. If you're using an old and insecure version you should know you'll experience problems.

Chrome can be locked to ancient versions using an AD policy, there's probably not much they can do about it (except qutting their job).

Almost. Except compatibility breaks with old libraries - which is the case. (I'm okay with "no more updates for you, XP is older than coal now"; just don't pretend that updates are even possible there)

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