FatalFetale

Sometimes things just cannot be compatible because of prerequisites. Sometimes the old tech isn't capable of running those prereqs at all. I hope that's the case here, because I'm personally very tired of needless version checking. Especially the ones that just let you install on something on a Windows 10 machine, copy over the installation and possibly mess with the registry to make the software happy, and have the program be completely operatable under a previous version of Windows. The MSIX appmanifest reads a prerequisite for Microsoft.VCLibs.140.00, which seems to be Windows 10 minimum sadly. Since it needs to be said at some point; We get it! This doesn't contribute anything to any discussion about backwards compatibility. Let users take whatever security risk they want, those few who stick around have already been bombarded with "sEcUriTy rISk" and likely aren't technologically illiterate since upgrading is the quickest and easiest solution for the masses. Either way; user choice. Just let me attempt to install your software, especially when it doesn't have any damn prerequisites. The best case you have preventing older versions of Windows from installing is less distractions on forums and bug reports, where you can isolate issues quicker. Even then, there's gonna be a small flood of Windows 7 users asking why the hell the software suddenly stopped working out of nowhere, with an update or something. Since support is going to shout "UPGRADE" all day anyway, why not just let the software run its course and redirect users to upgrade when it becomes incompatible? Or you know, tell them to install older versions of the software, if you let them anyway. Looking at you, Adobe.