Steam Dropping Windows 7/8 Next Year [Mar 28, 2023, 10:59 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.
Wilhuf wrote on Mar 29, 2023, 17:26:There's nothing wrong with Windows 10. Plenty of websites tell you how to disable things concerning privacy.
I'm not on board with the abandonment of Win7.
The system requirements for most of my games, in writing, state Windows 7.
Not Windows 10.
I've never had Windows itself throw a BSOD. NVIDIA caused one once, which they acknowledged as their mistake and quickly fixed. As experiences go, Windows 10 64-bit is the most stable OS. It's a solid OS for gaming, and I highly recommend it.
If you require Win7 for legacy apps, it's probably better to set up a second offline machine for that specific need. Meanwhile, Win10 is your primary OS. Continuing to use Win7 has significant security drawbacks.
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