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hard_times | 11 months ago

> Windows 8 build 7861's PDF Reader

Was not aware there ever was a Win32 desktop PDF reader shipped by Microsoft.

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Ah, if there’s one thing you should run very outdated versions of, it’s a PDF reader. Can I get a TIFF reader last updated in 2010 to go along with it?

mouse_|11 months ago

simply do not open files with malware in them

MortyWaves|11 months ago

Same. I only ever saw, and still do, PDFs by default opening in Edge.

I looked into it and I'm even more confused.

https://github.com/i486girl/win7-sp2/blob/1c57943c2e4f5e27e7...

This appears to suggest the appx file will somehow just run on Windows 7 which can't be right.

gruez|11 months ago

>This appears to suggest the appx file will somehow just run on Windows 7 which can't be right.

They extracted the .exe from the appx.

tech234a|11 months ago

7861 was a fairly early build of Windows 8, compiled in 2010 [1]. In the sreenshots it looks more like Windows 7 than Windows 8, so maybe it predated the full Metro implementation?

[1]: https://betawiki.net/wiki/Windows_8_build_7861