Like the dinosaurs and giant shoulderpads in women’s suits, World of Warcraft support for two older Windows operating systems is about to become extinct.
Blizzard announced this past weekend that it will be discontinuing support for Windows XP and Vista in all of its titles, including World of Warcraft, Diablo III, and Hearthstone. The studio said that it will begin the process of all this sometime later this year. The studio noted that Microsoft hasn’t been supporting these operating systems for many years now.
“After these older operating systems are no longer supported, the games will not run on them, so we encourage any players who are still using one of the older OSes to upgrade to a newer version. We’ll be rolling out this change on a staggered schedule, and will post further notices as we get closer to making the change for each game,” Blizzard posted.
