Some of those systems would be in enterprises that pay Microsoft for Windows 7 Extended Security Updates (ESU). Google hasn't provided updated statistics on the share of Chrome users still on Windows 7, but the additional year suggests a significant proportion of systems still use Windows 7. The new date is aligned with Microsoft's plans for enterprise customers that still pay for Windows 7 security updates.īack in November 2020, Google justified its decision to extend Chrome support for Windows 7 because 21% of organizations using Chrome were still migrating to Windows 10. Google's new one-year extension means it has extended Chrome support for Windows 7 for two years since its original end date. Microsoft announced the switch to Chromium in December 2018 and, in doing so, extended Edge support from Windows 10 to Windows 7, macOS and more recently to Linux. Ahead of Windows 7's end of support, Microsoft released Edge, a browser-based on Google's open-source Chromium project. Google offered extended Chrome support for Windows 7 to assist organizations that were still migrating from it to Windows 10.Ĭhrome, of course, is the dominant browser on Windows 7, Windows 10 and likely will remain so for Windows 11.
See also: CES 2022 preview: Crowds set to return to Las Vegas, but digital element remains. In January 2020, just days ahead of Microsoft calling end of life (EoL) on Windows 7, Google said Chrome would continue supporting the OS until at least July 15, 2021, or around 18 months after Microsoft stopped supporting it. However, enough people are still using the legacy Windows operating system for Google to keep patching Chrome, for now at least.Īs spotted by Ghacks, Google has updated an old blogpost from November 2020 to clarify that it will now support Chrome on Windows 7 "through January 15, 2023, for critical security and stability updates". Microsoft might have stopped providing security updates for Windows 7 almost two years ago. Here are ZDNet's current top picks for a variety of use cases.
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