There is fresh data on how long the Mozilla Firefox browser will support Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 operating systems. According to the company, the support period will end in the third quarter of 2024, which means that updates will come for more than a year. To be more precise, the support will end only in September next year.

This is especially important against the background of Google’s policy, according to which support for legacy operating systems ended with Chromium/Chrome 110.

It is noted that until the fall of 2024, Firefox version 115 ESR will be supported, which will be released on July 4, that is, exactly one month later. It is on it that all users of outdated OS will be automatically transferred. The assembly will receive security updates, but you should not expect new features in it.

At the moment, the share of Windows 7 is less than 4%, and the total share of PCs running 7, 8 and 8.1 is slightly more than 5%. Recall that Firefox will have its own chat bot.

Microsoft is about to completely stop supporting the Cortana voice assistant. Already from the end of this year, support for this application will cease, although the company has not yet announced the exact date.

In general, this was more than expected, since the assistant introduced in 2015 did not gain popularity from the very beginning, and even Microsoft itself quickly stopped somehow promoting it. Now the company has unveiled the Windows Copilot tool, which will offer much the same as Cortana, only bigger and better.

Actually, in Windows 11, initially Cortana did not have any significant place and did not appear when the OS was first loaded.

However, Microsoft notes that the changes will only affect Cortana on Windows, while the assistant will still be available in Outlook Mobile, Teams Mobile, Microsoft Teams display and Microsoft Teams room.

Google, following Apple, published statistics on the prevalence of a particular version of Android.

The most common version is Android 11. This system is installed on 23.1% of all active devices. This is followed by an even older Android 10 with 17.8%, but Android 12 is breathing down its back with 16.3%.

The current Android 13 is only on the fourth line with a share of 14.7%. You can also highlight Android 9, which holds 11.9% of the market. All other versions have less than 10%.