Times are ticking and technologies are advancing. According to the latest survey carried out by Valve to users, the 62.33% of players on Steam have Windows 10 64 bit as an operating system for their PCs. This part of the community decreases in favor of Windows 11 64 bit, which represents 32.06% of registered accounts.
Therefore, it is the rest of the people who use the older versions of the Microsoft program who must be vigilant. Starting January 1, 2024, Steam will stop working on Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1, ending support for them. Therefore, it will be essential to make a jump to a higher version if we want to continue playing all the content in our library.
Valve uses as main reasons for making this decision that “Steam’s latest features depend on an integrated version of Google Chrome, which no longer works on older versions of Windows.” As if that were not enough, in the security section, the future of the system will entail the implementation of updates and security features that only appear from Windows 10.
There is more than plenty of time to be able to change the operating system, but we are not talking about a modification that threatens the ecosystem of too many players. Windows 7 64 bit is owned by 1.43%, Windows 8.1 64 bit is only owned by 0.34%, while Windows 7 represents a minuscule 0.09% of total Steam users. The remaining 3.64% of the 100% is divided between Linux and Mac.
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