What Will You Do in January When Windows 7 is No Longer Supported?
Summary
For those of you who can isolate your Windows 7 systems from the web, that may be a workable solution (at least for a while). All the more modern browsers like Chrome, Safari, Firefox and even Microsoft Edge no longer support those plug-ins. Are you willing to stick with IE 11 when most modern Javascript-based browser applications won’t fully function within it? In our world, selling to very large and mid-size enterprises and institutions, we have found that customers who use applet viewers (like IBM/Daeja) cannot run on Windows 10 because NPAPI (plug-ins) support has been discontinued for all modern browsers due to security concerns. Windows 10 still includes IE11, which supports NPAPI, and is supported by Microsoft; however it is judged by the technical community as an extremely backwards and an increasingly incompatible browser for today’s web applications.