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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/30/21 5:00 AM,
      <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:interest-request@qt-project.org">interest-request@qt-project.org</a> wrote:<br>
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      <pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On Wednesday, 29 September 2021 07:40:11 PDT Rui Oliveira wrote:
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        <pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">"Both <b class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>Windows 7 or 8.x<span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b> version support will not be available for Qt 6"
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      <pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap=""><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-7-support-ended-on-january-14-2020-b75d4580-2cc7-895a-2c9c-1466d9a53962" moz-do-not-send="true">https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-7-support-ended-on-january-14-2020-b75d4580-2cc7-895a-2c9c-1466d9a53962</a>

"Support for Windows 7 ended on January 14, 2020."

<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/faq/windows#windows-8.1" moz-do-not-send="true">https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/faq/windows#windows-8.1</a>
"Windows 8.1 reached the end of Mainstream Support on January 9, 2018, and 
will reach end of Extended Support on January 10, 2023."
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    <p>This has never been a valid argument. Vendors don't get to choose
      when something dies. The customers do.<br>
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    <p>As the very public conversations with our friend Scott have
      revealed, even Intel is running **in production** systems Qt
      dropped. Ironic since they are using it to make the very chips
      needed to run Qt at least in whole or in part.</p>
    <p>There are medical devices still running and being developed with
      OS/2. Actually there are hundreds of thousands of cash station/ATM
      machines around the world still running OS/2 and much of the
      software is using Qt3.</p>
    <p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.logikalsolutions.com/wordpress/information-technology/os2-back-from-the-grave/">https://www.logikalsolutions.com/wordpress/information-technology/os2-back-from-the-grave/</a></p>
    <p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.arcanoae.com/product-category/an-products/">https://www.arcanoae.com/product-category/an-products/</a></p>
    <p>As of July 31, 2019 One in three businesses still run Windows XP.</p>
    <p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/ajdellinger/2019/07/31/survey-finds-one-in-three-businesses-still-run-windows-xp/?sh=46b5d4c057fc">https://www.forbes.com/sites/ajdellinger/2019/07/31/survey-finds-one-in-three-businesses-still-run-windows-xp/?sh=46b5d4c057fc</a></p>
    <p>As of September 2020 there were more computers running Windows XP
      that windows 8, ChromeOS, and Windows Vista --combined--</p>
    <p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.techradar.com/news/if-you-can-believe-it-millions-of-people-are-still-using-windows-xp">https://www.techradar.com/news/if-you-can-believe-it-millions-of-people-are-still-using-windows-xp</a></p>
    <p>=====</p>
    <p>As of last month, 1.26% of all laptops and desktop computers
      worldwide were still running on the 19-year-old OS. That’s a
      greater proportion than much younger operating systems Windows 8
      (0.57%), ChromeOS (0.42%) and Windows Vista (0.12%).</p>
    <p>=====</p>
    <p>The only thing one has to do to keep these systems "secure" is
      not connect them to the Internet. Most of the manufacturing,
      medical device, metal mill systems are on local loops or hiding
      behind extremely hardened VPNs. One VPN I helped write
      changes/changed proxy servers every 5 minutes using a book code so
      that no two packets of any transmission had the same encryption.
      It did it all under the hood so the video conference software and
      Web browser had no idea the communication was bouncing around the
      globe and across a few satellites.</p>
    <p>Norton sent an email out to customers claiming to drop Windows 7
      support. Suffered a mass exodus of paying customers. Now it has
      Maintenance Mode support all the way back to XP.</p>
    <p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://support.norton.com/sp/en/us/home/current/solutions/v126160909">https://support.norton.com/sp/en/us/home/current/solutions/v126160909</a></p>
    <p>It was that or go out of business.<br>
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