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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Follow the guidelines below for building Electron on Windows.
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-* Windows 7 / Server 2008 R2 or higher
+* Windows 10 / Server 2008 R2 or higher
 * Visual Studio 2017 15.7.2 or higher - [download VS 2017 Community Edition for
   free](https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/)
 * [Python 2.7](http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7/)