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Google Chrome will stop working on Windows 7 next month

Google Chrome will stop working on Windows 7 next month and

our company cannot upgrade to Windows 10 for another 3 years

due to our 17 year old custom developed application.

We also need to access our company accounts on about a dozen external websites

and I believe those websites will probably stop supporting Chrome on Windows 7 next month or anytime.

To remediate the issue for the next 3 years, I couldn't think of anything besides setting

up a Citrix or Win10 VM systems for Chrome use only for our users.

Please let me know if you have any other recommendations. Thank you.

Éric Moreau

will it stop working or will it be not upgraded anymore (I have read that no more updates will be available but it will still work).

Maybe you can use FireFox instead?

COCO3515

ASKER

Yes. It will still work,

but if the external websites we use, stop supporting Chrome on Windows 7,

we won't be able to use Chrome, even if it continues to work.

I believe Firefox will also follow the foot steps of Chrome very soon.

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rindi

Have you tested the 17 year old app on a newer os? What type of app is it, what does it do? Does it only run under a 32bit OS? Windoze 10 also has a 32bit version... Maybe we can help you to get that app running on windoze 10 or even 11.

In my point of view that would be the preferred option, rather than keeping old, unsupported OS's & browsers alive.

COCO3515

ASKER

This 17 year old software is currently at the beginning of a three year upgrade project

and it is a custom developed .Net 1.0/2.0 + Sharepoint/Infopath + SSRS application.

AmazingTech

We're going through the same issues with our 20+ year custom application. We purchased support from Turbo.net to use their virtualization technology so we can use IE8 on Windows 10.

They also can do the same for Chrome.

COCO3515

ASKER

Can you please let me know how you are accessing the Turbo.net's Win10 VM from Windows 7 machines?

Is it thru a Turbo.net's Client application or thru a browser on Windows 7 machines? Thank you!

rindi

Have you tried running the software on a Windoze 10 PC yet? You can install .NET 3.5 via the Control Panel, Programs & Features, Turn Windoze feature on or of, and that version includes .NET 2.0 & 3.0. The other things should also be installable or usable under Windoze 10.

COCO3515

ASKER

Thanks for the recommendation. I believe it worked partially when we tested it, just like the way you suggested but our data loader tool and batch forms tool didn't cooperate very well.