So yesterday LibreOffice launched v25.8, which will be released in August this year. As anticipated, this version will drop support for Windows 7 and 8.1. Nonetheless, I was curious if it will work on these OS.
On Windows 7 it does not work, since Windows 7 doesn't support Python 3.9+. You will receive the error "api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll" is missing. I used VxKex, which fixes that error, however another dependency from Windows 8+ is missing
On Windows 8.1, Alpha 1 works without any errors. I copied the folder from another Windows 10 install and I could launch Writer, Calc, Office...
Here, Windows 8.1 definitely benefits from higher Python support and newer APIs