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From: rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Ross Ridge)
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Subject: Re: Epic is dropping Win7/8 support
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2024 20:50:15 -0000 (UTC)
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Spalls Hurgenson  <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
>This is how it should be. It's very different from Valve, which
>actively disables Steam from running on older operating systems, and
>even if you do get the client running, its unlikely you'll be able to
>use it actually launch games.

Just checked and Steam still works on Windows 7.  I was able to update
and launch a couple of games without issue.  So while I'm guessing some
day in the future it'll stop working when Steam makes some incompatible
protocol or API change, for now you can still play Steam games on
Windows 7.

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