TL DR we will support NT 6.1 (Windows 7)/6.3 (Windows 8.1) until we physically can't, and we support Windows 10-latest and the direct previous build, and likely Windows 11, for as long as the win32 API is intact on ia32/amd64 architectures.Īs a reminder, even on Pale Moon 27 our support for versions of Windows before 6.1 was limited. Just always helps when the technical situation also happens to be consistent with plans and ambitions such as this.
I will personally push back against dropping any more Windows versions if only to keep them from chipping away at us on that front and enticing people like you from trying to justify their corruption. Tl dr Stop looking for a way to play this gotcha game and promoting enemy morons whom are totally incompetent and have a history of stealing intellectual property, false attribution, and threatening the security and stability of core infrastructure. It is my firm belief that the Windows-in-name-only agenda would have to almost certainly be considered an a totally new target operating system in UXP that wouldn't have much of an effect on traditional Windows on Intel-based hardware. Indeed, by the time or in the event it would be. The technical debt and burdon of support just isn't significant to justify what would right now be an arbitrary decision.
We aren't seeing the same core generational gap and the only digital divide is ahead of us in terms of the win32 api its self being under Microsoft attack code wise and threats from arm systems getting pushed as a priority. Unlike NT 5.x (and Vista) there is no technological benefit to dropping Windows 7 or 8.1 support in the codebase given the state of Windows development from 2012 onward.
Our plans in this regard have been discussed already.
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