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I work on Android apps for a food company turned media network.

We, to this day...with no talks of changing it any time soon, support all the way back to Android 5.0 (released in November on 2014).

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I mostly work on Windows apps. People still complain when software drops support of Windows 7 released in 2009, or Windows 8 released in 2012. Despite none of them are supported by Microsoft.

It'd be a more fair comparison to take into account Windows 7's EOL which was just a year ago IIRC if you coughed up Extended Support money, its broad install base, and it being the last actually truly decent Windows that had a consistent UI across the place and no ads.

Windows 7 didn't have a consistent UI, though. In multiple places you could find Vista and XP-decorated panels. Your nostalgia is wrong.

https://ntdev.blog/2023/01/01/state-of-the-windows-how-many-...

Goes back to 3.1

That only continued to degrade with Windows 8 and 10 though.

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