Dropbox no longer supporting OSX or Windows

[Jurek]

I received an email from Dropbox this morning, stating that from January 2018 Dropbox will no longer support the above operating systems.

Has anyone else received anything similar?

[Tim Hall]

No, but it might have been eaten by my spam folder. Your initial statement regarding Windows seemed a bit odd, so looking on the Dropbox website told me this:

On November 3, 2017, the Dropbox desktop application will no longer be available for download or install on devices that run the following operating systems:
Mac: OS X 10.6, OS X 10.7, OS X 10.8
Windows: Vista
On January 16, 2018, Dropbox will competely stop supporting these versions. On this date, you'll be automatically signed out of the Dropbox desktop application if you use it on a computer that runs one of these operating systems. You will no longer be able to access the Dropbox desktop application on that computer unless you update the operating system to a supported version.

So certain versions of OS X and Windows Vista.

[Jurek]

Lesss of a worry now that I know I'm using a much more recent OSX on my machines.

[hellymedic]

Used Dropbox earlier this week and found I had to manually upload my file rather than drag'n'drop following recent 'improvement'. None too pleased.

[Mr Larrington]

Odd.  All behaving as normal for me except for slowness of wanky hotel wifi.

[Tim Hall]

Odd.  All behaving as normal for me except for slowness of wanky hotel wifi.

Presumably the main purpose of wanky hotel wifi is for downloading Pr0n.

[frankly frankie]

Dropbox disabled itself on my old Win XPsp3 machine** long ago, never mind Vista.  Like, a year ago.

** not my main PC, but I still expect to be using it for some tasks for a few years yet.