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Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 (www.neowin.net)
submitted 2 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 11 points 2 years ago (4 children)

We're a GoG-first house, here.

I get that steam dropping win7 was unavoidable based on their shitty choice of browser base, but the alternative was only Firefox and we know how Mozilla-the-app went.

Anyway, GoG gives us control over our purchased copies, and I like that.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    There was a time when software didn’t need an entire browser engine to run. We used to call them native applications.

    Although looking at how small the pre-Windows 10 customer base is I imagine Valve would have considered it not commercially viable to continue supporting however easy maintaining the codebase was.

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