MS Edge just appeared on a W7 machine.

[Louis Balfour]

I am running an old W7 machine next to a new W10 machine. I though that MS were no longer updating W7, but I am pretty sure that Edge wasn't on my desktop two weeks ago. It is now.

Has anyone else noticed this?

[55palfers]

Yes, it popped up a few weeks back following an update.

Icon on desktop and taskbar. It didn't work though.

Deleted it.

[xeny]

I believe 7 and 8.1 are getting it as a patch Tuesday update.

It should run fine.

[AmitG]

Yep, they are rolling it out to Win7 machines. They didn't want to, but the issue is that a lot of corporate desktops are still running Win7, they need a better browser, and they are all migrating to Chrome en masse. So Microsoft had to do something to get them back in the fold.

Plus IE still has security issues and I think Microsoft recognised the amount of brand damage that it was doing to them.

I've been using "new Edge" for some time and IMHO it's great.

[Louis Balfour]

AmitG said:

Yep, they are rolling it out to Win7 machines. They didn't want to, but the issue is that a lot of corporate desktops are still running Win7, they need a better browser, and they are all migrating to Chrome en masse. So Microsoft had to do something to get them back in the fold.

Plus IE still has security issues and I think Microsoft recognised the amount of brand damage that it was doing to them.

I've been using "new Edge" for some time and IMHO it's great.

But updates have stopped is that correct? So have they just updated by way of a new browser?

[xeny]

Louis Balfour said:

But updates have stopped is that correct? So have they just updated by way of a new browser?

Updates for 7 have stopped unless you spend money (or possibly hunt out packages on the MS catalogue, I've not looked properly). I believe Chredge is due to receive patches separately from the underlying OS, not via Windows update - that's certainly the behaviour on 10.

[AmitG]

That's right. Updates for Win7 have stopped unless:

• You pay MSFT a ton of money (and they are actively discouraging this - they don't want to support it any more)
• There is a critical security issue, in which case MSFT will probably patch it