After all, even the officials themselvesEnded support for Windows 7 systems at the beginning of the year, to be honest, other developers have similar attitudes and no one will blame them. But after all, this is a super popular operating system, and it just happened to encounter this “challenging” 2020 (you know). Google recently chose to sympathize with the difficulties of enterprise users and announced that it would extend support for the Chrome browser, which was originally planned to end in July next year, until early 2020. Continue reading the text of the report that Chrome’s death date on Windows 7 has been extended to 2022.
Chrome’s death date on Windows 7 extended to 2022
At the beginning of the year, when the epidemic had not yet entered the epidemic, Microsoft chose to end related support for its extremely popular Windows 7 system. For other developers, it seemed that it was equivalent to offloading software maintenance resources for this system. However, seeing that the epidemic has impacted all levels of enterprises around the world, Google evaluated the feedback from enterprise customers and decided to slow down Chrome’s policy of removing support for Windows 7 systems, confirming that it would extend the original death date of July 15, 2021, by 6 months to January 15, 2022. He did not say anything for sure, saying that he would continue to evaluate the situation faced by customers and that it might change.
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If you only look at Google, there are actually other cases of similar policies during the epidemic that corresponded to drastic changes in the industry. For example, the deadline for the Google Meet video service to fully provide free work/study and isolation meeting needs has been continuously extended. This approach will really enhance people’s impression of Google. Especially although Windows 7 has been launched for more than 10 years, the current mainstream Windows 10 has been on the market for 5 years. But according to Google, 21% of enterprise users have not yet completed the migration to the new system.
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Seriously speaking, from an information security perspective, this is really getting more dangerous the longer it is delayed. But we can also understand that 2020 is indeed a drastic change that makes many people unable to adapt to the environment. In this regard, Google is sympathetic to the possibility that companies cannot complete upgrades as planned due to the epidemic, and at least provides extended support measures for Chrome, which many people rely on.
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