August 18, 20251 yr LibreOffice 25.8.0.4 works on Windows 8.1 You need to drop the „LaunchCondition“ Table with Orca. After that, the installer will install the suite. All apps seem to work without any issues. So, they could have kept 8.1 support but decided to end both 7 and 8 simultaneously. The suite doesn‘t work on Windows 7 (even with VxKex)
August 25, 20251 yr On 7/22/2025 at 8:02 AM, mjd79 said: Yes, also on 8.0 So do you have a compiled release for Windows 8/8.1, of Firefox ESR?
October 28, 2025Oct 28 In case anyone was wondering how the current Office status is on Windows 8.1: I installed the latest Microsoft 365 (v2509) on Windows 8.1,which indeed is the 31th Post-EOL Feature Update (v2301) for this System and ... Surprise -> it works! The new icons match very well with the OS. I like them. Look for yourself tho: imgur.com/a/kR2cdyl In terms of stability, I would recommend using Office 2024 LTSC. It is supported until 2029 (when Premium Assurance ends for NT 6.3) and includes modern standards yet excluding Copilot (which is great in my opinion) Edited October 28, 2025Oct 28 by yoltboy01
October 29, 2025Oct 29 On 10/28/2025 at 2:20 PM, yoltboy01 said: In case anyone was wondering how the current Office status is on Windows 8.1: I installed the latest Microsoft 365 (v2509) on Windows 8.1,which indeed is the 31th Post-EOL Feature Update (v2301) for this System and ... Surprise -> it works! The new icons match very well with the OS. I like them. Look for yourself tho: imgur.com/a/kR2cdyl In terms of stability, I would recommend using Office 2024 LTSC. It is supported until 2029 (when Premium Assurance ends for NT 6.3) and includes modern standards yet excluding Copilot (which is great in my opinion) does outlook work? for me it crashes upon opening any email
October 29, 2025Oct 29 3 hours ago, Jaguarek62 said: does outlook work? for me it crashes upon opening any email Good question! I installed Microsoft 365 (Word, Excel, PP, OneNote). The Image did not contain Outlook but I can test it later for you. In general, you definitely need to activate before using, since I noticed that Word and Excel tend to crash without proper pre-activation. PowerPoint requires some dlls from Windows 10 to work. by the way, I noticed that 365 does no longer work on 1507/1511 as well. Here, I receive the same errors as on 8.1. I guess Microsoft won‘t make an official statement regarding older Windows 10 versions.
November 8, 2025Nov 8 On 10/4/2025 at 10:02 PM, joop said: Do the firefox 143 run on W8.1? (Hope 153 ESR in 2026 wil run) I tested the latest 146.0a1 Nightly and FF itself does launch using the modifications posted by mjd79 on the previous page but it is unable to load any website. Maybe some problem with the patched GetProcessAffinityMask function. The latest ESR 140.5.0 still works however (although not surprising since ESR 140.0 was working) Edited November 11, 2025Nov 11 by superleiw
November 25, 2025Nov 25 On 4/3/2025 at 12:11 AM, mjd79 said: I'm missing the GetSystemCpuSetInformation function. Without it, FF to 138 launches but does not load any page. From 139 it doesn't work after replacing it with others at all. It supposedly appears in the api-ms-win-core-processthreads-l1-1-3.dll file in Windows 10 10240. And indeed, I checked it, and the kernel32.dll from this compilation imports this function from that file. On later versions of W10 the function "GetSystemCpuSetInformation" might have been moved to "api-ms-win-core-processthreads-l1-1-4.dll" The Microsoft API website seems to not have been updated in a while , I have found an alternative website here : https://apisets.info/apisetschemas/ For anyone interested, I also came across these interesting links for the "GetSystemCpuSetInformation" function https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winnt/ns-winnt-system_cpu_set_information https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75755496/meaning-of-schedulingclass-in-system-cpu-set-information
January 9Jan 9 Hey everyone, happy new year. I just tested the latest beta version of Microsoft 365 on Windows 8.1 (v2602) and it still works although EOL was 2301! v2602 will be the last "official" version for Windows Server 2016/LTSB 2016 imgur.com/a/ZFUPSUH
January 16Jan 16 https://github.com/e3kskoy7wqk/Firefox-for-windows-7/releases/tag/149.0a1 Run on W8.1 Edited January 16Jan 16 by joop
January 19Jan 19 On 1/16/2026 at 6:15 PM, joop said: https://github.com/e3kskoy7wqk/Firefox-for-windows-7/releases/tag/149.0a1 Run on W8.1 I can vouch for this!
February 5Feb 5 Is it known yet whether Firefox 115 ESR support will be extended in February 2026? It seems it will end permanently then, because I can't find currently any information about it being extended again. In a sense this is surprising, the W7 and 8.1 market share seems to be fairly stable, and Mozilla previously indicated that they considered the market share high enough to provide 115 ESR with security updates. On the other hand, I hope Firefox 153 ESR will work on W7 and 8.1, so we can continue with updates for at least another year. Pale Moon and CatsXP are still supported W7+ Supermium W XP+ without Widevine DRM (7+ with Widevine DRM) In total there are 5 good browser options now for W7+ Firefox 115 ESR Firefox 147 Fixed CatsXP Pale moon Firefox quamtum engine Supermium Do anyone known any another browsers supporting W7+? Edited February 12Feb 12 by joop
February 5Feb 5 3 hours ago, joop said: Is it known yet whether Firefox 115 ESR support will be extended in February 2026? On the other hand, I hope Firefox 153 ESR will work on W7 and 8.1, so we can continue with updates for at least another year. The way I see it, we now have this ... https://github.com/e3kskoy7wqk/Firefox-for-windows-7
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