I've been doing a lot of reading of Microsoft blog posts relating to .NET Core 3, but none of them mention the Windows version requirements, which is leading to a lot of comments querying whether Windows 7 will be supported?
I did find a quote from Rich Lander in this theregister.co.uk article:
Lander says "Windows 7 is supported with .NET Core 2. We haven’t locked the OS matrix for .NET Core 3, but we don’t have any specific plans on changing it."
Is there a definitive statement on Windows 7 support .NET Core 3 from Microsoft anywhere?
PS: I appreciate that Windows 7 is End of Life, but I'm also mindful that XP's extended support period was lengthened. Judging by the number of our clients who are still running Windows 7 it seems possible that Win 7 might get an extension too.
Just came across this table in the dotnet core GitHub repo which suggests that Windows 7 is indeed supported for .NET Core 3.0:
Windows 7 is also still supported in NET Core 3.1
And in .NET 5
And in .NET 6
But not in .NET 7 onwards