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It's good while the software you run on it still supports that OS, for example the big one would be anything build upon Chromium (or electron) framework which deprecated win7 support when Microsoft ended ESU support (EOL +3 years).

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doesnt matter because windows can run even dos software out of the box

its compability its one of the best

The most stable ABI on Linux is the Win32 one, running on WINE.

and windows can run WSL

So software should be deployed with DOSbox and WINE on Linux on WSL on Windows 7. Got it!

Spoken like a guy who doesn't use WINE.

Yes, sure. Which is why companies shipping old DOS games make them run in dosbox… Makes total sense. Could it be that windows isn't that compatible?

After all no game from >10 years ago runs any longer.

"After all no game from >10 years ago runs any longer."

stop lying, I can run original doom, sim city and red alert on my windows 10

You just need to click run compability as windows xxx then you can run it

Yes on dosbox… try to run a directx6 game which won't run in dosbox but will need to rely on microsoft for compatibility and then let me know how it goes.

The downvotes are obviously coming from people who did not try to do as i asked.

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