steam support for win 7-8 ending.

[SkeeterUK]

Game over: Steam won’t run on Windows 7 or 8 after January 1, 2024

Windows 7 still runs on more Steam PCs than every version of Linux combined.

arstechnica.com

News - Client Updates

store.steampowered.com

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

General

• Added "End of Life" alert for Windows 7/8/8.1. Steam Client support for these operating systems will end on Jan 1st, 2024 at 10am. See here for additional details.
• Fixed crash when clicking links in Compatibility Mode alert dialogs
• Reduced CPU usage of the Big Picture Mode window

macOS

• Added "End of Life" alert for macOS 10.11 ("El Capitan") and 10.12 ("Sierra"). Steam Client support for these operating systems will end on September 1st, 2023 at 10am. See here for additional details.
• Fix Steam Overlay crash in some games using Metal graphics API

(This client was re-released a couple of hours later to fix a regression that caused some Steamworks enabled multiplayer game sessions to fail to connect)

(This client was re-released again to fix a crash running some games)

If you upgraded steam lately ud see in the notes about it. Im surprised there wasnt a topic about it since i think a lot of ppl still use win 7 and maybe 8 as well tho wasnt as popular. Just thought id post the topic incase anyone missed the news.

 

[SkeeterUK]

Dont blame em considering how the new OS are going with data collection and services.