![]() ![]() ![]() Therefore NV Access will continue to offer the NVDA 2017.3 download on its website, even once future NVDA versions are published. NV Access acknowledges that this decision will be unpopular to some, and also understands that there will be users who will not be able to switch to a newer Operating system. Many other mainstream applications including browsers such as Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome have already dropped support for these older Operating systems. This means that users are running these Operating Systems at great risk to security. To add to this, Microsoft no longer offers any support for Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7 with no Service Pack. With only 4% of our users now on these older Operating systems, we feel it is no longer worth the investment, especially now that it is starting to impact the majority of our users. It is becoming increasingly harder to maintain support for older Operating Systems while at the same time fixing bugs and adding new features for newer and more secure Operating systems. ![]() Those users on older Operating Systems can continue to run NVDA 2017.3. ![]() NVDA 2017.4, which will be released around the end of November, will require windows 7 Service Pack 1, or Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 to run. After much consideration, NV Access has decided that NVDA 2017.3 will be the last version of NVDA to support older Operating systems such as Windows XP and Vista. ![]()
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