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by Touche 3695 days ago
> You are misinformed.

According to Wikipedia I'm not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7#Support_lifecycle

"Mainstream support for 7 ended on January 13, 2015."

I think it's reasonable that businesses don't support an OS version beyond the OS's provider's own "mainstream support".

> Thus it's not that likely that Windows 7 wouldn't be supported by a Win32 app (which this is), unless they go out of their way to make it so.

Possibly, but listing support on their website means they support it, and why should they do that if, again, Microsoft itself does not?

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Literally 5 words later:

Extended support will end on January 14, 2020

Ending mainstream support is Microsoft's way of saying: from now on you'll only get security fixes and no new features. Windows 7 support hasn't been dropped in any other way.