Google Drive ending app support for Windows 8 and 8.1

The Google Drive desktop application will soon no longer support Windows 8 and 8.1. In a support page Viewed by android policeGoogle says it is ending support for both versions with the 32-bit version of Windows 10 in August of this year.

The desktop app for Google Drive allows you to back up any photos and videos on the cloud storage service as well as Google Photos, as well as sync files and folders on your computer. From August, users running 32-bit versions of Windows 8/8.1 or Windows 10 will not be able to use the app to sync or back up their files through the app.

This update doesn’t mean affected users can’t access the drive through their browser, though — given that they use one that actually supports their operating system — but they can’t access the drive via their computer. , if they want to continue syncing their files.