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Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 (www.neowin.net)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1::Customers sticking to the good-old (and dead) Windows 7 now have one more reason to ditch the operating system: as of January 1, 2024, Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (5 children)

It is ridiculous that Steam won't let you play your games you payed for outside of steam. Games that you've played for years on Windows 7 suddenly no longer play. Steam is like a DRM system that suddenly stops working and makes all the stuff you bought worthless.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What if a security exploit happens to affect that older version of Steam that’s no longer updated and somebody’s able to hack your account change your password change your email now they have a brand new entire steam library that you no longer have anymore. Would you rather that? This is more of them covering themselves legally, so if that were to happen, they cannot be sued

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Would you rather that?

I would rather Steam let me play all my games I legally purchased on Windows 7 outside of steam. If Steam is not going to work on Windows 7 than stay the hell out of the way and let me play the games I bought and have installed on my computer.

I hope somebody sues them for stealing their purchased games.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This isn't Steam's fault. The OS is dead because Microsoft killed it (as part of their ongoing planned-obsolescence operating system program). There is no conceivable way Steam can maintain security for anyone's account on an OS that hasn't received security updates for three years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Nothing unusual about cutting the cord at some point when major updates introduce big enough differences that it becomes a pain to make sure things stay compatible. Same thing happen with any OS.

I swear some people around here must be mad that Microsoft doesn't release Windows 98 updates anymore...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Are you running an OS that hasn't received a security update in a year (if you purchase the ESU packages)???

Dude, at least move on to Windows 10 or something, that's just you taking bad decisions at this point.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Steam is literally DRM. But nobody wants to acknowledge that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah I don't blame valve for Microsoft dropping security updates and neglecting the last good version of windows. I've switched to Linux where this will never happen.