I wouldn’t expect someone to upgrade hardware just to get the newest OS. And yeah, you can run a windows 7 app on windows 10, there’s a compatibility mode in the properties of the exe where you can tell it to run in Windows xyz compatibility mode, though often you won’t need to bother with that, as it’ll just work.
From what I remember it’s backwards compatible on lower levels but can you easily run a Windows 7 app on Windows 10? Windows 11 was a smaller change but then they force you to upgrade hardware which is opposite of compatibility.
Joelk111@lemmy.world 2 days ago
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Yes? Pretty much anything made for XP and up will run on 11. Shit as long as the program is 32 bit it will probably run. Only exception is games, and that’s more just because hardware has moved on.