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  "textContent": "> Vista support at the very least shouldn't be too hard, 7 and Vista (fully updated) are similar API-wise\n\nI mean, technically I'm sure it could be made to work. If I'm not mistaken, I think some people already figured out how to run our binaries on Vista, using tricks that are apparently fairly standard for people trying to run Windows 7 stuff on Vista. It basically boils down to this:\n\n1. Vista was not very popular or well-liked.\n2. Most who do use Vista know how to get Windows 7 software running on it through hacks (back in the day, I managed to run some Windows XP software on Windows 98 using KernelEx, and Vista->7 is way less of a difference).\n3. It's been standard industry practice to drop support for XP and Vista at the same time for most other software packages, and sticking with that makes things easier.\n\nBut yeah... I would say in an alternate universe where Vista was a very popular OS and we had a bunch of angry users clamoring for Vista support instead of Windows XP support... there's a bigger chance we would have grudgingly come to a compromise and found a way to give them what they wanted. XP was a no-go... Vista just wasn't pursued because it was an inconvenient place to draw a line, and there was basically no one asking for it.\n\nMy advice: Just build Windows 7 binaries and let Vista users figure out how to run it. Anyone still using Vista in 2026 probably knows the drill by now and has found a way to run newer Windows binaries.\n\n* * *",
  "title": "Other Applications • Re: Dactyloidae Browser (Basilisk fork)",
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