Valve’s Steam platform no longer supports Windows 7
Steam ditches Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 support with its latest client update
At the start of this year, Valve’s Steam platform officially stopped supporting Microsoft’s Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 operating systems. Since then, users of Steam on these OS’ have been living on borrowed time. Eventually, Steam would stop working on these devices, forcing users to upgrade to Windows 10 or 11 to access their Steam libraries.
Steam’s latest client update no longer runs on Windows 7 or 8. This was confirmed within Valve’s release notes for their November 5th client update. This update also drops support for macOS 10.13 and 10.14.
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.
Valve has confirmed that their decision to drop Windows 7/8/8.1 support was due to security concerns. This is because Steam uses an embedded version of Google Chrome, which itself no longer supports older Windows OS. Additionally, Valve plans to utilise Windows features that will only be available on Windows 10 and newer OS’.
Valve has recommended that users of older Windows OS’ move to Windows 10 or Windows 11. Alternatively, these users can install Linux on their systems, another OS that Valve officially supports.
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