[GNC] Limitations Running v4.4. on Windows 7?

[Geert Janssens]

The GnuCash devs are not actively preventing you from running the application 
on Windows 7. So as long as it works, good for you.

On the other hand, while it currently still works there will be no active 
effort to maintain Windows 7 compatibility either. If at some point in the 
future running on Windows 7 breaks for whichever reason, that will simply be 
the end of it there and then.

Microsoft has ended support for Windows 7 so we won't actively promote its use 
either. In today's connected world security patches do matter.

Having said that, I think it will probably continue to run for quite a while 
still on Windows 7 simply because we don't do much that needs Windows features 
that are exclusively for Windows 8 and up.

Regards,

Geert

Op donderdag 1 april 2021 10:14:44 CEST schreef David H:
> Seems to be OK on Win 7 Ultimate which is 64 bit so that might be the
> difference - I thought it was more to do with not providing a 32 bit
> version any more for Win 7.  Anyway I just keep installing and running it
> on Win 7 / Win 10 / MacOS Big Sur / Ubuntu Linux 20.10 without any issues
> 
> :-)  So as long as your Win 7 is 64 bit I'd say go for it.
> 
> Cheers David H.
> 
> On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 at 18:01, viking <viking2ev at san.rr.com> wrote:
> > halvey wrote
> > 
> > > There aren't any as far as I'm aware :-)
> > > 
> > > Running Gnucash 4.4 no worries on Win 7 Ultimate and everything works as
> > > expected.
> > > 
> > > What's your issue with the help files ?  PDF versions can be downloaded
> > > from https://www.gnucash.org/docs.phtml if you prefer a pdf.
> > > 
> > > Just upgraded to 4.5 which also looks good.
> > > 
> > > Cheers David H.
> > 
> > I actually didn't try to install v4.4. I assumed that it wouldn't let me
> > install as it is specified to only run on WIN8 and up... If it really
> > installs on WIN7, I wonder why it is specified to only be used on WIN 8
> > and
> > up?
> > 
> > I downloaded and run the portable version of GnuCash (
> > https://portableapps.com/apps/office/gnucash_portable
> > <https://portableapps.com/apps/office/gnucash_portable>  ). The problem
> > witrh the help file may be attributed to the portable version (nothing
> > happens when clicking on help).
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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