

Nine years after the release of Service Pack 1 they are surprised when they are told to update their operating system.

In 2020, we still receive complaints from users who cannot install LibreOffice because the system asks them to install Windows 7 SP1. Only the first few versions of LibreOffice could run without Windows 7 SP1, which was turning Windows 7 into a stable operating system by solving 893 bug fixes and 77 security fixes. Microsoft released the first Service Pack for Windows 7, also known as Windows 7 SP1, in February 2011, just a few days after the release of LibreOffice 3.3, the very first release after the fork. Technical assistance and software updates from Windows Update that help protect PCs are no longer available for the product. Microsoft released Windows 7 on October 22, 2009, and ended the support on January 14, 2020.
