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Microsoft has announced on their blog that they are making a Chromium based version of Edge and that it's coming to older versions of Windows. How will this affect Windows 7 usage by having a newer browser being supported in its twilight years. And what will become of the EdgeHTML version of Edge and Internet Explorer?

max isn't that great, you will still get viruses and spyware if you try to put them on your computer as a test. I read lots of bechmarks where MSE doesn't really catch everything. Best defense to malware is the person using it. OS you just gotta not do things that a educated person would know not to do and you never will get a virus even without protection.

I think it's pretty much 'max' by default. Be prepared for sluggish browsing, though; at least that was my experience with MSE. I finally ended up excluding browsers from MSE in "Excluded processes" and using MalwareBytes' Anti-Exploit to monitor them instead. (MSE still monitors everything else; just not browser processes.) It was the only way to keep my Web browsing from becoming painfully slow.

... I can confirm that the most current release (v7.6.1) continues to be Vista SP2 compatible: Notepad2-mod hasn't been updated in a long while; its github repo is marked as archived, last commit was pushed on Aug 15, 2017. So it is safe to assume that this project has become "abandonware", with the latest official release v4.2.25.998 becoming in essence the very last (final) one (still compatible with Windows XP SP3 + Vista SP2): As you say, NotePad3 does not officially support the Vista OS (and the new owners, Rizonesoft, also dropped WinXP support): However, the last stable release v4.18.512.992 apparently runs fine on Vista SP2: Most sadly, the rosey story ends up here ; during the autumn, the dev team moved on to a new compiler with revised compiler settings/kernel optimisations so that the new branch 5 released builds (currently in the Release Candidate dev stage) are not capable of being launched under Vista, due to missing API calls: So, version 4.18.512.992 should be marked as the last Vista compatible one ; obviously, the maintainers themselves have no intention of restoring Vista support to the app, but it is my gut belief - without, that is, browsing the code itself - that, again, we may have to deal with an artificial Vista block; the app is open source, so hopefully the code could be recompiled targeting again the Vista OS... Here's hoping...

It's not perfectly clear on my box TV but I believe I have spotted Windows XP on NBC Nightly news: See that monitor in the background? Looks to be Firefox on XP to me!