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Subject: Re: Steam finally kills Win7/8 support
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 16:30:23 -0500
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ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) looked up from reading the entrails of the porn
spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:

>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? :(

Old OS gamers don't buy Gabe Cheeseburgers.

Xocyll