{"id":21546,"date":"2020-01-11T14:41:33","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T13:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=21546"},"modified":"2020-01-10T14:51:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T13:51:21","slug":"chrome-extends-updates-for-w7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=21546","title":{"rendered":"Chrome extends updates for W7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-Post-Thumb wp-image-8604\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Google_Chrome_icon_2011-64x64.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Google_Chrome_icon_2011-64x64.png 64w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Google_Chrome_icon_2011-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Google_Chrome_icon_2011-480x480.png 480w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Google_Chrome_icon_2011-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Google_Chrome_icon_2011-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Google_Chrome_icon_2011.png 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 64px) 100vw, 64px\" \/>While Windows 7 will soon receive no more updates<br \/>\n(January 14th, 2020), Google has announced yesterday<br \/>\nthat they will deliver updates for Chrome browser at<br \/>\nleast for the next upcoming18 months.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This means that users can use their Windows 7 installation with a safe browser for at least another 18 months so that they have to upgrade their computers in mid 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing similar is known from Mozilla foundation and Firefox but they&#8217;d better do likewise in order not to loose more users to Google.<\/p>\n<p>The IE however will be stuck on IE11 for Windows 7 as there&#8217;s no upgrade planned at all. And even the new Edge browser which is based upon the Chromium browser engine won&#8217;t be unrolled on Windows 7. At least there are no known plans from Microsoft to provide a software package that will be compatible with Windows 7.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a matter of time how long fans of Windows 7 will keep their Windows installation up until they update to Windows 10. But one day they will have to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Windows 7 will soon receive no more updates (January 14th, 2020), Google has announced yesterday that they will deliver updates for Chrome browser at least for the next upcoming18 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,3,2949,19],"tags":[368,3432,249,1956,3824,856],"class_list":["post-21546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-2","category-news","category-technology","category-thoughts-2","tag-chrome","tag-chromium","tag-google","tag-maintenance","tag-update-hotfix","tag-windows-7"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}