When I tried to run it on a Windows 7 virtual machine, the bootstrapper was run (because a missing registry entry showed that WebView2 was not installed). I included the tiny Microsoft bootstrapper for the Evergreen installation in my app's installation/upgrade program. I tried to follow the instructions for distributing WebView2 with my app, but am having serious problems. But my app is designed to run under Windows 7 and Windows 8, as well as Windows 10. WebView2 works well in developing and testing under Windows 10 (so far). Those updates are ending now, too a similar program is not being offered for the significantly less popular Windows 8, which is just past its 10-year anniversary.Įdge will continue to run on Windows 11 and the later releases of Windows 10, as well as supported versions of macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android.Hi - I have produced a new update of my app which uses WebView2 instead of the old IE Web browser control. But because Windows 7 was so popular with businesses, Microsoft took the unusual step of offering three additional years of optional, paid update support for the operating system. Most people stopped receiving general-purpose security updates for Windows 7 back in 2020, around a decade after its original release. If you thought that Windows 7 had already stopped getting security updates, you’re not wrong. Because the underlying Chromium engine in both Chrome and Edge is open source, Microsoft could continue supporting Edge in older Windows versions if it wanted, but the company is using both end-of-support dates to justify a clean break for Edge.
The end-of-support date for Edge coincides with the end of security update support for both Windows 7 and Windows 8 on January 10, and the end of Google Chrome support for Windows 7 and 8 in version 110. Further Reading “Too much and too soon”-Steven Sinofsky looks back at Windows 8, 10 years later
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