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Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 (www.neowin.net)

submitted 10 months ago by L4s to c/technology

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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Steam is literally DRM. But nobody wants to acknowledge that.

[–] Voyajer 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's a store and content downloader. Buy games that don't implement steamworks and you can copy the install folder to keep playing on windows 7 just fine without logging in.

[–] TheGrandNagus 1 points 10 months ago

I'm sorry I hurt your feelings.

[–] TheGrandNagus 1 points 10 months ago

Steam isn't DRM, it's a game storefront/downloader that offers developers the option of DRM when they publish their game.

Plenty of games have zero DRM, and plenty of games do. I wish they'd make it clearer which do and which don't, but that's a separate issue.