News Summary

• ""Steam Support will be unable to offer users technical support for issues related to the old operating systems, and Steam will be unable to guarantee continued functionality of Steam on the unsupported operating system versions..
• "After that date, existing Steam Client installations on these operating systems will no longer receive updates of any kind including security updates..
• "Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 7 on January 14, 2020, and Windows 8.1 reached the end of support on January 10, 2023.Microsoft offered the enterprise two years of extended security updates..
• "This change is required as core features in Steam rely on an embedded version of Google Chrome, which no longer functions on older versions of Windows," continues the support document..
• "As of January 1 2024, Steam will officially stop supporting the Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 operating systems," reads the support article..