“IT teams can also take advantage of Chrome’s existing enterprise capabilities and future roadmap, including our continued investment in cloud management, enterprise security capabilities, and our plans to integrate more closely with the broader ecosystem across the operating system versions,” it added. “With this extension of support, enterprises with their upgrades still in progress can rest assured that their users remaining on Windows 7 will continue to benefit from Chrome’s security and productivity benefits,” Google said in a blog post. Resolved issue 3578: Chrome 85 no longer allows graceful interaction with windows when an alert dialog is open For more details, please see the release notes. With most offices shuttered due to Covid-19 related lockdowns, it is unlikely that more companies would’ve migrated to Windows 10 in the months following the outbreak of the pandemic.Īs of now, Google has extended Chrome support for Windows 7 for another six months. Other companies, whose wares run on Windows 7, such as Google, said that it would extend support for its Chrome browser on the older operating system for a minimum of 18 months from Microsoft’s End of Life date - July 15, 2021.Īccording to a study by market research firm Kantar, commissioned by Google Chrome Enterprise, as of Q2 2020, 21% of organizations were yet to migrate to Windows 10. “Microsoft will not be providing technical support for any issues, software updates, security updates or fixes for Windows 7 post-January 14,” the company had said at the time.

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