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[mitchman]

Chromium has dropped support for Windows 7 and 8.x, and the steam client uses it so it has to drop support for those OSes too.

 

[jayj]

I loved 7, hated 8, love 10, not a fan of 11.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Piracy will always be king! Another thing pirated games have an edge is not having to deal with mandatory official updates that break many past mods in games, it is extremely infuriating.

Pirating games is for idiots

 

[Terrtin]

This is kinda sad, but i think it's called evolution, because they simply cannot support older version all the time. So i guess this is expected. I can say that i have problems with new version of Windows. Specifically 11 and believe that they should have delevop better version, but we have what we have really. And besides the problems can be solved with specialized software kms activator . It is still don't tragedy, but if they will develop Windows 12 with payments, well that would be tragedy

 

[winjer]

Steam did allow users to keep using it on Windows 7 and 8 for a bit longer, but now it's officially over.
The latest Steam version ended compatibility with these OSes, as of now.

Steam News - Steam Client Update, November 5th - Steam News

A new Steam client has been released and will be automatically downloaded

store.steampowered.com

This version of the Steam client will no longer run on Windows 7 or Windows 8. Users on these OS versions will not automatically update to this new version of the Steam Client. See the Windows 7 and Windows 8 Support FAQ for additional details.

 

[diffusionx]

I know Windows 10 and Windows 11 suck ass but just for perspective, Windows 7 today is older than Windows 95 was when 7 came out.

 

[DownLikeBCPowder]

I know Windows 10 and Windows 11 suck ass but just for perspective, Windows 7 today is older than Windows 95 was when 7 came out.

Ugh.. time flies.