[HN Gopher] Mozilla ending support for Windows 7
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       Mozilla ending support for Windows 7
        
       Author : rebelwebmaster
       Score  : 8 points
       Date   : 2023-07-09 22:22 UTC (39 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (blog.mozilla.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (blog.mozilla.org)
        
       | mattl wrote:
       | Why should these projects support things after the companies that
       | make them do?
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       | Mozilla doesn't support old Linux or macOS either.
        
         | 2h wrote:
         | why should Mozilla let Microsoft or anyone else dictate what
         | they support?
         | 
         | I agree that Windows 7 should be dropped, but only because its
         | quite old, not because Microsoft has dropped support for it.
         | Frankly Windows 7 is better than Windows 11, I think many would
         | agree with that.
        
           | johannes1234321 wrote:
           | Aside from potential security issues newer versions of
           | windows always provide new APIs and changes to old ones.
           | Keeping support requires keeping track of that and testing,
           | which costs resources.
        
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