I've just received my invitation and I just noticed that Windows 8 appears as requirement for Galaxy 2.

I've Windows 7 and I was able to install galaxy 2 and I think is working.

In the near future, this will change and it won't work on Windows 7?

I know that the support for that version of windows is in its "final days", but I'm curious if this will happend before the end of life support for seven.

GOG Galaxy 2.0 works just fine on Windows 7.

I assume they put in that requirement because they hadn't officially tested it on Windows 7 yet.

I installed it shortly after I made this post and for now it's working okay.
I suppose that since the microsoft support for windows 7 is so close to it ends they won't be able to support windows 7 anymore. So GOG only will support oficially OSes that will receive updates by Microsoft.

If this the case then I'm uninstalling GOG Galaxy and using download from the site.

Also here goes my plans to get GOG Galaxy achievements.

But I hope CD Projekt knows that there's still huge market for Windows 7 and supports it for long.

Windows 8 is end of life
the min req should say 8.1 which is a different os and still going until 2023 but most people assume they are the same thing

no Galaxy 2 doesn't work on Windows 7 because the sync will not work on older Networks... what you can get working is the basic ui

If you want to keep using Windows 7 instead of Windows 10 then more power to you... I don't recommend doing your banking or running a business but this is gaming

p.s you have 4 months remaining on Windows 7

https://www.gog.com/forum/general_beta_gog_galaxy_2.0/windows_7_i_gog_20/post4

I wish i knew why people make these recommendations (or refrain from recommending). Updates always were optional on Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7... even 8. Why do you assume everyone updates as soon as patches are out? I've never updated my OS as soon as patches are out because i know what i am doing. When i install Windows (7) i do a round of updates because i just did a fresh install. But usually it ends there. Never change a running system, only if there are compatibility issues. If you don't run Software which will exploit or infect your OS, there is no problem.

Would you please elaborate on how using banking in my browser (which is the same version on Windows 7, 8 or 10) will be unsafe in Windows 7 after support ends? How do people still use even older Windows or Linux Versions?
There is no magic way your OS gets compromised just because it is active. Or is this based on your own experience because you use Windows in an unsafe way? Do you have special ports open to the internet? No router/firewall or even using Windows in a DMZ? I would really like to hear an explanation from a technical standpoint (seriously), maybe i am missing something.

Also, promoting Galaxy 2.0 with phrases like "Designed to protect your privacy", "no spying, no data sharing" and "your data belongs to you" is pretty ironinc if they only support Windows 8 and especially Windows 10. :(

Windows 7 still has 25% market share by the way, which is still 8 times what Mac OS has. Windows 10 is now at about 57% (according to netmarkesshare).

It does not matter whether you know what you are doing or not, there are a lot of people out there making money by finding errors in Windows. And as MS ins't offering fixes for those errors anymore your system gets more vunerable over time. It does not matter whether the browser you use on W7 is the same as on W10, as
a) Browser are also a target and (as every software) they are vunerable. They still get fixes, but this usually takes also time, so you end up in a situation where an error in your browser is used as a doorway to an error in your OS
b) malacious software may not use your browser directly but comes as a payload via some unsuspicious looking download - the times when you only need to worry about downloads from warez/pornz sites are long gone now, this is business model for some people. Just do it as myself, use Windows 8: still getting updates without the "we can do as we please with your data" EULA f Win10 "offers" Even if it was 99%, it does not change the fact, that Win7 does not get any updates anymore, period.

You dug up a 4 month old thread to ask me to explain networking to you?

Windows 7 runs on an older network protocol so using Windows 7 makes you easier to hack. Open ports, what browser and antivirus software you use are important for case by case scenarios but not the main point here because the operation system itself is [by deliberate design from Microsoft] open to back door attacks

I don't promote Galaxy 2 over Galaxy 1... I do however run them both on different systems and find some of the new options nice but Galaxy 2 is still in open beta and missing important things like a way to see your sound dlc files, your licence keys and patch notes

Marketshare is wrong and their figure of 25% is misleading because there is a hugh difference between real copies of Windows vs virtual Windows systems... A virtual Windows 7 is sitting behind a host system running Windows 10 or Server to use that [more] up to date network portals so is in fact a modern systems only pretending to be Windows 7 so the operator or the software feels good about themselves

to be clear, use Mac, Linux or whatever Windows system you like... its your life and no skin off my nose what you play games on

There is no doubt about people exploiting vulnerabilities. Still, as i mentioned, i (and several friends of mine) rarely update after the initial installation of the OS and i can not report any issues. And i am talking about 20 years of Windows use. When you talk about the standard, non technical person, then i guess there will be some concern. But speaking for myself i don't see any issues coming up. My browser is secure and updated regularly and i don't just open any email attachments. :D
I would expect real issues as soon as something like steam, gog or similar services are hacked though. But i think that will not be different on Windows 8 or 10.


Not really, i just saw that Windows 7 is not supported and looked for threads regarding this topic. No digging was involved. ;)
And i don't need an explanation of networking. I just wonder what people do what i don't seem to do. I secure my browser, i am very careful in general when it comes to websites, software etc... i sit behind a router with firewall, so there is no way to hack my windows. Except when the router/firewall is also hacked or has a weakness, AND someone happens to find my windows machine behind that router. Which i doubt.

I think many people tend to panic and it's just an exaggeration to make claims along the line of "there are no updates, Windows 7 will immediatelly be hacked!". If you are not totally clueless there will be no problem. If you have no clue, even the most modern OS will not protect you.

The fact that Windows 7 no longer gets updates does not mean that it's going to be immediately hacked. However, it does mean that whenever a vulnerability is found, it won't be patched, and the longer an OS install of any kind goes without being updated, the more likely it is that it will have a problem due to a vulnerability that wasn't patched - and in general, it's worse for Windows than other OSes, because it's targeted far more (as well as arguably being less secure by nature than many other OSes). So, while the vast majority of people running Windows 7 aren't likely to run into security problems very quickly, just because they haven't updated, the longer they go without moving to a version of Windows that actually gets security updates from Microsoft, the higher the odds that they will have a problem. Good web and security practices definitely help, but you're still opening yourself up to potential problems by not updating.

Regardless of the security issues though, there are changes with every version of Windows such that supporting multiple versions of Windows can be a testing burden on developers and can limit what they do with their applications, since libraries or features they may want to use won't necessarily be available for older versions of Windows. So, it can be a big incentive for developers to want to not have to worry about older versions of Windows. At this point, I would expect that a _lot_ of applications won't say anything about Windows 7 support, because the developers won't have made any effort to even check whether the application works on Windows 7, and they won't want to put in the time and effort to fix any issues that may come up with running on Windows 7 (even more so now that Microsoft doesn't support it anymore). In spite of that, it's likely that a lot of those applications will run on Windows 7 for a quite a while, but over time, it will be more and more likely that the developers will have done something that won't work on Windows 7.

So, while it may not be a big deal to not bother moving off of Windows 7 immediately, the longer you stick with it, the more likely it is that you're going to have a problem, and I wouldn't expect developers in general to be worrying much about Windows 7 support - if at all - going forward. If you're on Windows 7, and an application like GoG Galaxy 2.0 works for you, then great, but don't bet on that continuing. Whether it does or not is likely to be very application-dependent.

@Erynar
I would sign that (not sure the saying also works in english).

As i have been using Windows for a long time now i don't have a problem with it in general. But Windows 10 is different, Microsoft just has crossed a line concerning forced updates, scanning, spying/privacy issues etc... it is most likely i switch to Linux (have been using it a lot anyway) and only use Windows 10 for the games which won't run any other way. I have WIndows 10 running on my gaming notebook already for over a year as well as on several machines for work.
I just hope many gamers as well as normal users (who need Windows even less) migrate to Linux and Microsoft maybe get's a clue.

Waiting for a GOG client for linux btw... Valve can do it, so can CD Project.

Personally, I basically just use Windows for games and when I need to program something for Windows. I don't even use browsers on Windows if I can avoid it, since that's a really good way to put yourself at risk of security problems. I use FreeBSD for my main machine, but because game support is even worse on FreeBSD than it is on Linux, I long ago just gave up on using anything but Windows for games, much as I'd love to be able to ditch Windows entirely. Windows 10 does make things worse due to stuff like how updates are handled and the spyware that it comes with, but I was already only using Windows when I had to when I was on Windows 7. Upgrading my Windows PC last year forced me to upgrade to Windows 10 even before it was dropped by MS though, since Windows 7 doesn't properly support newer CPUs (as part of MS' attempt to force people to upgrade). Either way, I'd be upgrading now if I hadn't, since I don't want to have a computer connected to the internet if it's not getting security updates. There really is no great solution though given how many games only really work on Windows and what MS has done with Windows 10 - and it's all the more sad considering how much MS did to improve things in Windows 10 over what they were in Windows 7. But they couldn't just make stuff better; they also had to make other aspects of the OS worse. :(