Re: Edge browser and Windows 7

On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 at 00:44:01, Orlando Enrique Fiol 
<[email protected]> wrote:
>In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] writes:
>>So if Windows 7 is being pensioned off, how come I've just been offered Edge
>>for windows 7?
>
>It's meant for Windows 10, 8 and 7, which is why it works on your Windows 7
>installation.

Edge initially came with 10 only. I think its original code - or some of 
it - was based on Internet Explorer (certainly its logo was a big blue 
lowercase e, same as IE's one but with a slot in it). Then - I don't 
know why - they tweaked it so it was available on 7; I think that was 
after the end of 7 support. A later revision changed it to use a lot of 
Chrome's code - it even took a lot of the Chrome add-ons I had. (The 
icon is now a blue-green swirl - not sure if that happened with the 
switch to Chrome code.) The Chrome version still works on 7.

> But honestly, there's no good reason to stick with Windows 7 at
>this point, especially since Microsoft has stopped supporting it.

The change to a different user interface needs a good reason to adopt - 
more so for vis folk, in some respects; if 7 still works for you (it 
does for me, a sighted person) there's no necessity to change, unless 
you're paranoid. Though it is to be accepted that more and more will 
cease to work - mainly meaning websites; any software that is already 
working will _not_ cease to work.
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