The January 10 is the date chosen by Microsoft to remove support for the new browser, microsoft edge, in Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. from that moment all regular security updates will be stopped as well enlarged in the aforementioned versions.
Support for Windows 7 and 8 will also end for Microsoft Edge Web View 2which relies on using the Edge rendering engine to embed web pages in non-Edge applications.
A piece of news that has been received like a jug of cold water for those who bet on this browser as a real alternative to Google Chrome. Now, those with an older version of Windows will be forced to look for another option as a search engine.
But don’t worry time to update! Microsoft Edge will continue to run with full normality and performance, acquiring its new security updatesin Windows 11 and all versions after Windows 10. Likewise, it will appear in those supported versions Linux, iOS, macOS and Android.
That same day will also mark the end of support for Google Chrome for Windows 7 and 8 in version 110, due to the fact that the underlying Chromium engine found in Chrome and Edge is open source. In this way, Microsoft could support Edge in versions prior to Windowsalthough the date is marched as a clean and seamless exit method for Edge.
So that, there will be no functionality and security updates to Chrome for users of these versions of Windows. Save the date, February 7, 2023! From then on, Chrome 109 will be the last version supported by Chrome.
chome 109latest version of Chrome compatible with Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1, and the new Chrome 110 (available from February 7, 2023) will only be able to work with Windows 10 or later versions.
The end of Windows 7 and Windows 8?
Probably. Most Windows 7 users stopped receiving security updates in 2020, a decade after its release. Although the company continued to send them because it was very well received by companies, in such a way that it offered three additional years of upgrade support previous payment as an option to deploy the operating systems.
However, these updates are also disappearing in windows 8which is currently ten years old and for which it is not expected to launch a program with similar characteristics.
Microsoft Edge is a web browser developed by Microsoft, based on Chromium. It arose for Windows 10 and Xbox One in July 2015, then for Android and iOS in October 2017, ?? for macOS in May 2019, on Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 in January 2020, and for GNU/Linux in October 2020. Edge burst into force as a more customizable and safer version for the whole family.
Edge’s appearance was as a substitute for the classic internet explorer of users of Windows 10 or later versions, in order to be able to compete with other browsers such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.
Users are now forced to use at least the version of Windows 10 to avoid problems with browsers, since Microsoft has decided to make the decision for us and end support in order to improve the security of its users.
