Microsoft has shown old-fashioned aggression in trying to get Windows 10 users to adopt its new browser. Now, even Windows 7 users are finding it a little much.

Microsoft launched Edge based on Google's Chromium open source project for Windows 7, Windows 10, and macOS. This is Edge 79 stable.

The latest Microsoft Edge 107 update is only available on Windows 10 and 11. However, Microsoft has also prepared a small browser update for those still using Windows 7, 8, and 8.1.

Microsoft announced this week that it has released previews of its Chromium-based Microsoft Edge Web browsers for use on Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 systems.

Starting on June 17th, 2020, Microsoft has begun to roll out the KB4567409 update for Windows 7 that installs the new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser.

Microsoft Edge will drop support for Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1 after the release of version 109 on January 12th, 2023.

Following in the footsteps of Chrome, Microsoft will end support for Edge on older versions of Windows.

After Google announced that it will continue support for Chrome on Windows 7 for at least 18 months, Microsoft has confirmed that it will support its new Edge browser for the same amount of time.

The new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge is coming to Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 PCs via Windows Update.

Just a week after releasing the first Canary channel Microsoft Edge builds for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1, Microsoft has done the same for the Dev channel. Those using the older versions of ...

Windows 7 and 8 support will also end for Microsoft Edge Webview2, which can use Edge's rendering engine to embed webpages in non-Edge apps.