XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, misc.taxes   
   From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 1/29/2026 2:28 PM, Maria Sophia wrote:   
      
   >>   
   >> If virtualization software like vmware runs in   
   >> your W10 laptop, you might install W11...   
      
   At least you have options like that. A Windows 7 user   
   has a lot fewer hosting softwares that can install there.   
      
   And the hosting softwares are not always properly labeled.   
   One developer said "we leave the old OSes behind when   
   they go out of support, but we don't state anywhere whether   
   the software works or not". I think they do in fact know   
   it's a trap. (I had the same problem with this attitude,   
   around copies of Wireshark, where when you needed OS   
   version info, there was no hint which one was OK.)   
      
   I suppose it's just human nature to torture people   
   who aren't using "The New Shiny".   
      
      Paul   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)