# Future of Windows support (what is your use case?)

**URL:** <https://mediasoup.discourse.group/t/future-of-windows-support-what-is-your-use-case/3074>\
**Category:** mediasoup libraries\
**Created:** [July 23, 2021, 11:10pm UTC](https://mediasoup.discourse.group/t/future-of-windows-support-what-is-your-use-case/3074 "2021-07-23T23:10:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![snnz](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/mediasoup.discourse.group/snnz/32/693_2.png) [@snnz](https://mediasoup.discourse.group/u/snnz)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2021, 7:08am UTC](https://mediasoup.discourse.group/t/future-of-windows-support-what-is-your-use-case/3074/13 "2021-09-01T07:08:32Z")

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By the way, the lowest version that allows to run mediasoup out of the box is Windows 8 now. Not because of mediasoup code itself, but because libuv developers dropped support of Windows 7. They had formally done that some time ago, but recently they actually started to use a function from WinAPI that appeared only in Windows 8 (namely, GetHostNameW). So, in Windows 7, the workers will not start. It is still possible to patch the libuv sources in case someone want to run mediasoup in Windows 7.

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