Fun fact: libgit2, a library made by Github, uses TLS 1.1 on Windows versions earlier than 10. Which means that attempting to access Github via libgit2 on Windows 7 is now broken. https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/5066 …
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Windows 7 was released 10 years ago and Microsoft’s support for it ended 3 years ago, so it seems weird to expect Github to support its use...
Windows 7 is not EOL until 2020. Depending on where you get your stats, it accounts for somewhere between 45% and 25% of desktop marketshare today. It's the most widely used desktop OS. This also affects Windows 8 and 8.1 AFAIK
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The fact that 40% of desktops are running an unsupported OS doesn’t mean it’s Github’s problem that those desktops are unable to make TLS connections, though...
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I kind fo chalk it up to the human factor. Not everyone thinks they need an upgrade ("My computer works why upgrade?!" or enterprise reasons), but it ends up causing problems anyways cause at some point, even with forewarning (1 year in GitHub's case), people still don't upgrade.
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