but this might be interesting
Not really, its just a marketing
PR stunt by Google.
As I said in earlier in relation to anti-virus and any other third party software..... run it on top of an insecure OS with exploitable APIs and you're not achieving anything.
The answer is in the last phrase of the concluding paragraph of the article :
Or is it giving stubborn users of XP what may seem like a good reason to continue using the operating system
Note the words "what may seem".
