https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/4784-4F2B-1321-800A#:~:text=Steam%20Support%20%3A%3A%20Windows%207%20and%20Windows%208%20Support&text=As%20of%20January%201%202024,on%20those%20versions%20of%20Windows. "As of January 1 2024, Steam will officially stop supporting the Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 operating systems. After that date, the Steam Client will no longer run on those versions of Windows." More importantly - "In order to continue running Steam and any games or other products purchased through Steam, users will need to update to a more recent version of Windows."
  • zachary3752@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    As some people in the comments mentioned, it’s because Steam itself relies on Chromium on the backend. And Chrome is dropping support for Windows 7/8.

    That being said, if you have a machine connected to the internet you really should be on Windows 10/11 or Linux at this point.

    It’s pretty risky to be running an unpatched and unsupported version of Windows these days.