Quote Originally Posted by Raeletta View Post
Microsoft have stated that Users of 7/8 (Even pirated) will get a 1 year window to upgrade to Win10 for free. So they're unlikely to bother porting it down. They very much want to drop support for the older OSes, considering how stubborn people are to move on from 7. (I'm one of them).
yes and whether the FFXIV team decides to make use of DX12 or not really depends on how big of a leap of users upgrade to 10. I'll say this as one of those using the technical preview I can say if they keep going like they have been things are looking like the upgrade from 7 will be well worth it. but we shall see.