After a recent update, Steam is no longer working on the Windows 7 and Windows 8 operating systems, and users will finally need to upgrade.
  • PunchingWood@lemmy.worldEnglish
    671·
    30 days ago

    Well W7 is practically 15 years old, and already stopped receiving updates itself. It’s not really up to Steam to keep it up and running even especially if Microsoft no longer bothers to update the OS, it would just get more and more problematic, and they also had to let it go at some point.

    I don’t think anyone cares about W8 though, even Microsoft itself barely seemed to put effort in making it work.

    • Sabin10@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      30 days ago

      To be fair, it’s not just a steam thing. My understanding of the situation is that chromium is dropping win7 support so anything using chromium will stop working on older operating system.

      • icedterminal@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        30 days ago

        Steam uses the Chromium embedded framework in case anyone doesn’t know. This renders the web pages in the Steam client. As mentioned, there’s no point in Valve maintaining the code base themselves when upstream Chromium drops support for 7.

        This is similar to when browsers dropped support for Flash. Adobe stopped developing it and the major browser vendors removed their in-house flash plugins.

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    30 days ago

    TBF an online Windows 7 copy is just asking to be Hacked given Microsoft support ended in 2020 and security updates after that required a paid subscription which ended in 2023.

  • stupidcasey@lemmy.worldEnglish
    141·
    29 days ago

    Well the last good windows is dead.

    Once windows 10 is dead I am full Linux, I have already begun the transition, any time I have to install a new Os it’s now fedora 40.

      • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        30 days ago

        He got upset at the Yuzu developers for dropping support for Windows 7, and after throwing a tantrum in a GitHub Issue report, he directly emailed Nintendo and their legal team with a massive word salad directly linking to Yuzu. Multiple times. Then within around a month or two Nintendo initiated a lawsuit.

    • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      29 days ago

      It’s about Steam itself. Not about the games. Steam has a Linux build while the article is about the Windows build.