>>>>Hi,
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>>>>Anyone is using Microsoft Edge for Windows 7? Any gotchas? I have IE 11 on my Windows 7 but I get a lot of messages to upgrade. I also have Chrome but MS products do not seem to work in Chrome.
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>>>>What do you suggest?
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>>>>TIA
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>>>Before I'd upgraded* my Windows 7 Ultimate rig to Windows 10 several months ago (just before Win7 fell out of support), I was using the Edge for Windows 7 on it (since IE11 wasn't working well anymore, and Chrome was giving me some grief -- would more often use FireFox or Opera as they seemed to be more stable for me). I was regularly using Edge (had installed it when it became available for Windows 7), and It worked well -- except in those cases where the coding in a web application would select IE6 compatible code whenever it detected "Microsoft" in the browser ID (I still can't figure out why code like that *still* exists today -- ever since IE7/8, such coding really shouldn't be necessary -- not necessary if most [if not all] your users had already migrated away from Windows XP and older).
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>>>* I did originally did the upgrade to see if
>>>1. to see if it work on my computer
>>>2. to see if rumors I'd heard that the "free upgrade" still worked long after the offer period had already expired
>>>I was pleasantly surprised -- it actually worked - mostly. And yes, the upgrade "took" and indeed the upgraded OS did show up as being activated. The minor hitch of course was that I lost the use of the XP mode VM (since the license for it is tied to Windows 7 -- it doesn't get carried over with the upgrade). and Virtual PC stopped working since hardware virtualization wasn't enabled at the BIOS level.
>>>As a precaution, I *did* make sure to image the harddisk prior to trying out the upgrade. After the intial try, I did roll back to Windows 7 to deal with the hardware virtualization problem (and it turned out I needed to update the BIOS** for that option to actually work).
>>>** Performing a BIOS update could be a bit scary -- there's that old joke about what "re-flashing the BIOS" could be interpreted as "in a flash, everything goes wrong". The idea that you could potentially "brick your system" wasn't comfortable. Because of this I made sure that I had another rig available to migrate to if the worst happened. I did have a "scary moment" when after enabling hardware virtualization i the BIOS (after updating the BIOS) -- the computer went into a reboot cycle (i.e. it would begin boot, get to the Windows logo, then promptly go into reboot). Took a few other "tweaks" in the BIOS and OS, but I finally got everything working (though again required several more reboot cycles before everything came up)
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>>Thank you very much for your input on the MS Edge.
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>>As far as upgrading Windows 7 to Window 10, I won't do it. I am getting a new PC, Windows 10 this week. And I will not risk the Windows 7 upgrade until I am 100% comfortable with Windows 10.
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>I'd generally recommend against "in-place" upgrade. My upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 10 went reasonably smoothly (actually it went a lot better than I thought it would), though not without a few worrisome "hiccups", and still required reinstallation of a few applications to correct some "quirky" behavior. I probably should perform a clean install of Windows 10 (which should work now that I'd already activated once) to avoid any "residue" left over from previous install (e.g. "vestiges" of prior prior installation that are no longer being referenced, references within the registry that are no longer valid, etc.). I'd taken some time to "scrub" much of this out -- but there's probably plenty that I'd missed.

I think it is not a bad idea (at least for me with customers having multitude of operating systems) to keep one PC with Windows 7. As I said, the new computer is coming (probably tomorrow) will be Windows 10. And I am not looking forward to installing all applications I use. I don't have the patience :)