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From: ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
Subject: Re: Steam finally kills Win7/8 support
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Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Nov 2024 05:25:40 -0000 (UTC), rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca
> (Ross Ridge) wrote:

> >I believe so, yes.  Last week I booted my old Windows 7 PC in order to
> >copy some games over to my new Windows 11 box, and I let Steam update
> >a few games and it worked fine.   I didn't do a complete install of any
> >games though.

> Steam seems to still be working on my Win 7 machine. I installed a
> game which also worked fine. It just isn't updating anymore. I am
> guessing it will stop working entirely at some point.

Is Valve really going to block all gamers in older OSes? :(
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