Steam Dropping Windows 7/8 Next Year [Mar 28, 2023, 11:59 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Valve
announces that at the start of next year, Steam will discontinue support
for Windows 7 and Windows 8:
As of January 1 2024, Steam will officially stop supporting the Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 operating systems. After that date, the Steam Client will no longer run on those versions of Windows. In order to continue running Steam and any games or other products purchased through Steam, users will need to update to a more recent version of Windows.
The newest features in Steam rely on an embedded version of Google Chrome, which no longer functions on older versions of Windows. In addition, future versions of Steam will require Windows feature and security updates only present in Windows 10 and above.
Maybe, but there are pros/cons to the digital world we live in now. I can install and play any game even bought 18 years ago when I made my Steam account on any of my computers with a click. Pretty awesome. I would have long lost the CD cases. No reason to support deprecated operating systems it just costs money/time better spent elsewhere.
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