Sure that's the plan, but it doesn't seem to have actually rolled out to any use...

drdaeman · on Jan 6, 2016

Probably because Edge is a Metro/ModernUI app that doesn't work on Vista and 7.

jessaustin · on Jan 6, 2016

So... not actually standalone. Chrome and Firefox don't have that dependency. I guess that memo still hasn't been sent.

drdaeman · on Jan 7, 2016

But it's perfectly normal to depend on some OS parts and have minimum version requirements. Happens with everything out there, just that thresholds are different. Any recent Chrome doesn't run on Windows XP. IE11 doesn't run on Vista. Edge doesn't run on 7. Safari 7 doesn't run on OS X 10.8.

What do you propose to MS - to spend time supporting Windows Vista? Or make a browser that supports it? Bet they just don't care about Vista, besides security patches and alike stuff that they have to do under various enterprise contracts. Given that they go lengths to persuade 7 & 8.x users into upgrading to 10, doubt they care much about those versions, too.

jessaustin · on Jan 8, 2016

Any recent Chrome doesn't run on Windows XP.

I'm regularly in an office that is rife with XP. I won't be in that office to check the exact versions on all the installed Chromes for a couple of weeks, but they certainly seem up-to-date.