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Correct answer Dan Rodney

Sorry, but you cannot install it on Windows 7. Adobe is building XD on a newer Windows development platform that requires Windows 10. From what I've read and seen, XD will never work on anything prior to Windows 10.

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Participant
October 15, 2020

Is there any way to download and install older version of Adobe XD to Windows 7?

Participant
October 16, 2020
No,

XD needs win 10

Kind regards,
Dragos
Participant
October 30, 2019

You can install a virtual machine on your Win7, and install Win10 on that virtual machine, then the Adobe XD. 

Alternativeley here are a couple o programs to replace your need for Adobe XD:

Pencil Project
Affinity Designer

Atul_Saini
Community Manager
Community Manager
May 8, 2020

Moving the discussion to Get Started community. 

Participant
October 23, 2019

Afff.... win 10 sux

HARSHIKA_VERMA
Community Manager
Community Manager
October 24, 2019

Hi there, 

 

We are sorry to hear you are experiencing issue with Adobe XD on windows 10. We would request you to please check out this article: https://helpx.adobe.com/in/xd/system-requirements.html for system requirments in order to use Adobe XD.

 

Let us know if that helps.

 

Thanks,

Harshika

Participant
October 30, 2019

And you just decided to drop that tldr bombshell that helps no body and insults everyone looking for help. 
Typicall Adobe Authorised Support

No it doesn't help, and even the smallest amount of bother on your part would have made it painfully obvious that your comment is as useless as a royal family in a democratic country. 

Participant
September 5, 2018

it should available for win 7 because there are so many designer who using win 7,

Participant
December 21, 2018

why Adobe xd   not available for windows 7,   its business strategist .?

Participant
June 9, 2018

You cannot install Adobe XD on window 7 as it has some lacking features in comparison with Windows 10 and XD is made for windows 10 and so on.

Palooch88
Participant
June 9, 2018

thanks for copy&paste answer... I don't see any problem besides marketing and forcing to use win10 when I dont want to... and do not reply that you have arleady written...

More powerfull Adobe programs can run on earlier version of windows so why Adobe Xd can't? Because someone on the top forced it, that's why...

And I can install it on my Iphone SE but on win7 I cannot fck logic yeah!

ProDesignTools
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 9, 2018

Sorry, that doesn't make sense... There's simply no reason Adobe "marketing" would want to force use of Windows 10 if the application could readily run on Windows 7 as well. Quite the opposite, in fact – if they limited it to only the newer o/s version unnecessarily, then that would restrict the potential user base – and wouldn't be anything anyone (either the company or its users) would want, if it weren't necessary for what the developers wanted to achieve.

The reason Adobe XD is Win10-only is because it is built on a platform (UWP) that Windows 7 simply does not support. That is all. Any other line of discussion is not fruitful or productive.

Dan Rodney
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Dan RodneyCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
March 20, 2017

Sorry, but you cannot install it on Windows 7. Adobe is building XD on a newer Windows development platform that requires Windows 10. From what I've read and seen, XD will never work on anything prior to Windows 10.

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Participant
August 12, 2017

I need to have Xd adobe for my work so can i get it