Question: what's the plan with Windows 7?

[huoyaoyuan]

To be honest, consumers always ask developers to support old systems beyond official EOL. Would you drop Windows 7 just because EOL? Or keep support of it until some significant feature lack?
MSVC has shipped another XP target long after XP EOL.

To be clear, will .NET 5 support Windows 7?

[scalablecory]

@terrajobst @richlander

[DaZombieKiller]

There might be precedent for dropping Windows 7 based on #423, although I imagine the primary driver for that issue is the difficulty of maintenance as mentioned by @jkotas in a comment. Whether or not a similar case applies to Windows 7, who knows.

[richlander]

We are supporting Windows 7 for the lifetime of .NET Core 3.1. We haven't made a decision on .NET 5 yet, and are not actively discussing it. I suspect we'll until June/July (or later) to make that decision.

[danmoseley]

The question here is answered: if there is an update in the summer we'll share it in the usual places. Closing.