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Steam has now officially stopped supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. (www.theverge.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Steam has now officially stopped supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1.::95.57 percent of surveyed Steam users are already on Windows 10 and 11, with nearly 2 percent of the remainder on Linux and 1.5 percent on Mac — so we may be talking about fewer than 1 percent of users on these older Windows builds. Older versions of MacOS will also lose support on February 15th, just a month and a half from now. Correction: It's macOS 10.13 and 10.14 that are losing support. Not macOS period.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Out of curiosity (I no longer run win 7 at all so can't check), does this mean steam will give an error if you try to run it on win 7 and will refuse to run? Or is this just valve saying they are no longer committed to releasing any updates for win 7? Or a combination of the two where they aren't deliberately making it incompatible, but they also aren't deliberately making it compatible so some patch is expected to break it entirely, maybe even today?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

End of support means no more security updates. MS already ended support for Win 7 which has numerous unpatched vulnerabilities.