{"id":465975,"date":"2022-10-25T09:35:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T07:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=465975"},"modified":"2022-10-25T09:37:14","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T07:37:14","slug":"chrome-dropping-support-for-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/465975-chrome-dropping-support-for-windows-7.html","title":{"rendered":"Chrome dropping support for Windows 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google has announced<\/a><\/strong> that its Chrome 110 update \u2014 scheduled for release in February 2023 \u2014 will be the last to support Windows 7 and 8.1.<\/p>\n

While it might not seem like a big deal as the operating systems (OSes) are relatively old, with Windows 7 first being released in 2009 and Windows 8.1 in 2013, the two OSes make up almost one in every ten Windows users in South Africa.<\/p>\n

The tech giant said Chrome’s end of support for the OSes matches Microsoft’s end of support for Windows 7 ESU and Windows 8.1 extended, which is scheduled for 10 January 2023.<\/p>\n

“If you are currently on Windows 7 or Windows 8.1, we encourage you to move to a supported Windows version before that date to ensure you continue to receive the latest security updates and Chrome features,” Google said.<\/p>\n

A recent MyBroadband analysis<\/a><\/strong> shows that, as of August 2022, the two OSes make up 9.91% of the South African Windows market share, with Windows 7 and 8.1 holding 7.16% and 2.75%, respectively.<\/p>\n

Google specified that older Chrome versions would continue to work on these operating systems.<\/p>\n

However, they will no longer receive updates, meaning a lot of people could soon be running both an unsupported operating system and an unsupported web browser, which could be a significant security risk.<\/p>\n

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Now read: Microsoft announces Windows 11 Start menu and Widgets update<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google will soon stop supporting its Chrome web browser on Windows 7 and Windows 8.1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":465977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,16],"tags":[1567,167,123,807,5214,19781],"class_list":["post-465975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","category-software","tag-chrome","tag-google","tag-microsoft","tag-windows","tag-windows-7","tag-windows-8-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466015,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465975\/revisions\/466015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}