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Windows 7 and 8 now dead for gaming, as new Steam update pulls support (www.pcgamesn.com)
submitted 1 month ago by Road_Warrior_10 to c/games
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[โ€“] Sabin10 57 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] icedterminal 31 points 1 month 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.