Last week Google made an announcement about its use of SSL/TLS with advice to customers on how to ensure the can continue to connect to Google's services.

If you're running Chrome, Firefox or IE 10 on a shiny new Windows 8 laptop you're laughing. However, if you still have systems running IE on Windows XP you may find yourself stuck. This is because Internet Explorer on Windows XP uses the underlying operating system's SSL services to make secure connections, but IE8 on XP does not add the necessary SNI header to outgoing requests. Unfortunately XP users cannot upgrade to IE9 or 10 so certain sites will not be available to them.

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