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Blue_MiSfit · 30th July 2020, 02:30

Yeah IMO it's entirely unreasonable to expect a vendor like BlackMagic Design to support Windows 7 for something like a modern NLE. Do you expect them to support XP still?

Professional content creation should be happening on modern, supported systems - if nothing else for security reasons. Bleeding edge Windows 10 release? No. The latest known stable and widely released version? Yes.

Feel free to keep using the old version, but you're on your own. You really can't fault BMD for deprecating support for such an old OS. It costs money to support old OSs due to QA requirements and probably a lot of crufty code to maintain. They decided it was no longer worth spending those resources, and that was a good decision.

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Blue_MiSfit Derek Prestegard IRL Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 5,989	Yeah IMO it's entirely unreasonable to expect a vendor like BlackMagic Design to support Windows 7 for something like a modern NLE. Do you expect them to support XP still? Professional content creation should be happening on modern, supported systems - if nothing else for security reasons. Bleeding edge Windows 10 release? No. The latest known stable and widely released version? Yes. Feel free to keep using the old version, but you're on your own. You really can't fault BMD for deprecating support for such an old OS. It costs money to support old OSs due to QA requirements and probably a lot of crufty code to maintain. They decided it was no longer worth spending those resources, and that was a good decision.