Google Continues to Extend Chrome Browser Support on Windows

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Perhaps realizing that 2022 is not long enough, Google continues to extend Chrome Windows 7 support for another year. This means you can use Chrome on Windows 7 until January 15, 2023.

Currently, the Chrome browser supports the following Windows platforms:

• Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 or later
• Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows Server 2016
• Intel Pentium 4 or later processor with SSE3 support

Other Chromium-based browsers also extend Windows 7 support for another year. Mozilla also continued to support Firefox on Windows 7 but did not disclose an end date for support.

Microsoft stopped supporting the Home version of Windows 7 on January 14, 2020. Customers in the Business and Enterprise segments can purchase an Extended Security Update (ESU) plan to receive security updates for Windows 7 for an additional 3 years.

Microsoft's Microsoft Edge browser will also support Windows 7 until January 15, 2023. Meanwhile, Internet Explorer 11 browser will no longer support all platforms, including Windows 7, from January 15, 2022.

The schedule to end support for Windows 7 by both Microsoft, Google and other giants almost coincides with each other. The fact that the companies simultaneously extended support for Windows 7 shows that this operating system still has a lot of users.