Dear Community,
Currently, our MXNet installation guide for Windows does not work for Windows 7. e.g. Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 is not supported on Windows 7 <https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/support/vs2015/received-error-specified-program-requires-newer-version-windows/>. In addition, MSFT ended “Mainstream” support for Windows 7 in 2015 ( https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13853/windows-lifecycle-fact-sheet). Therefore, it is not possible for developers to build MXNet and verify the fix on Windows 7 platform. Given that there have been several issues about MXNet error on Windows 7 (issue#9271 <https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/9271>, issue #8921 <https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/8921>, issue #11163 <https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/11163>), it will even add more burden on developers in the future if we were to continue supporting Windows 7. I therefore would like to propose that we discontinue the support of MXNet on Windows 7 in the next release. Specifically, this means the following required actions: 1) state the discontinuation of Windows 7 support in the release note 2) update the MXNet webpage if Windows version is mentioned. 3) update the open Github issues related to Windows 7 Please share your thoughts about this proposal and/or suggest if there is any other missing action item from the above. Best Regards, Lin
