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Originally Posted by VitreauX
Hi!, I've following this for several months already, and I created this account just to know how this process going 
I'm a Windows 7 user, I've already gone through windows 10 but I sticked to W7 again (for working purposes and because I like it a bit more)
Still there're way more people with W7 than with W10, and W7 also has extended support till 2020.
May be there's no need to start developing it from 0. I assume you have already a version of it, so I would like to know if you will check if worth it to make it work for W7 (which will be great! ) |
Hello and welcome,
I would tend to believe that Windows 7 is being replaced day after day. For instance, as far as I understand it, Windows 7 being in [I]extended[/I ]support would mean
no new feature and only security patches since January 13, 2015. No new investment or feature fix.
Also, Windows 7 is unlikely to be used on newer machine (I really mean "shouldn't be used") because
updates won't install on them so I'd expect people to have to go to Windows 10. I think this is reinforced by Meltown and Spectre we could expect users to want fixed on their machine as it's been very well covered in the news.
When we looked at doing f.lux on Windows 10, we uncovered a bug in the OS. Microsoft fixed it straight away in their following release (It took less than one business day between us flagging and them committing a fix!!). This wouldn't happen on Windows 7.
The feature to enable f.lux was supposed to be released and was pulled because of the unacceptable quality level. The architecture has to be redone if it is to become a released feature, a full review was performed to understand how the fundamental issues were found so late and adjustments were made.
I encourage you to have a look at
some effect of having it enabled. I strongly believe these cannot be released to millions of users of the technology, most of them probably don't really wish/need colour correction.
I also personally very much wanted to get that feature and that's why I scheduled its development initially, first based on user feedback of course.
If you feel like it, and understand your computer *will* be unstable, you might
add the registry key to force enable the feature. I personally don't believe the benefit outweighs the inconviences and this is why I am unable to advise enabling the feature today.
Today, I am unable to commit to a delivery on Windows 7. This is
not that we believe this would be wasted effort, this is because we are having to prioritise based on how many people might use it when the feature is delivered versus other requests we have received: what brings the most business value to most people.
Kind regards,
Alban