Microsoft announces the end of support for the Edge browser for Windows 7 and 8.1, shortly after the end of extended support for these versions of Windows scheduled for January

The end of support date for Edge coincides with the end of support for security updates for Windows 7 and Windows 8 on January 10 and the end of support for Google Chrome for Windows 7 and 8 at version 110.

Microsoft can continue to support Edge in older versions of Windows if it wants to as the underlying Chromium engine for Google Chrome and open source Microsoft Edge.

Most users stopped receiving general purpose security updates for Windows 7 in 2020, about ten years after its initial release. 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. Those updates end today, too; No similar software was offered for the lesser-known Windows 8 operating system, which just celebrated its 10th anniversary.

Edge will continue to work on Windows 11 and later versions of Windows 10, as well as supported versions of macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android.

source : Microsoft

And you?

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In your opinion, what could explain why users (companies or individuals) keep accessing unsupported versions of Windows such as Windows 7 or Windows 8?
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