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Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 support will end tomorrow (January 1st 2024) (help.steampowered.com)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by testeronious to c/[email protected]

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This affects roughly 0.91% of the users according to the latest hardware survey (november 2023)

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam

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[–] Carighan 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think people misunderstand what "active support" means, yeah. Of course Steam will at least for a time still work on Windows 7/8. It just means they're sunsetting the testing VMs they're using. From now on any breakage might happen and not be caught. Or might not happen. They won't go out of their way to break it though, that'd be extra work for no income.

[–] daf 7 points 10 months ago

It will break as soon as they update CEF which they were likely dragging their feet on doing to keep Windows 7/8.1 support.

The entire Steam UI is a web page running on embeded chromium (what cef is), They're using an ancient version atm (v85 i believe), current version is v121 and Windows 7/8.1 support was dropped in v110.