Customers sticking to the good-old (and dead) Windows 7 now have one more reason to ditch the operating system: as of January 1, 2024, Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1.

Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1::Customers sticking to the good-old (and dead) Windows 7 now have one more reason to ditch the operating system: as of January 1, 2024, Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1.

  • thehatfox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    337·
    10 months ago

    Google (or any other browser vendor) never forced anyone to rely on a web browser engine to develop desktop applications.

    This is what happens when developers make trade-offs for convenience at the expense of control.

    Also in Steams’s case the pre-Windows 10 Steam user base is also tiny, and may not be considered commercially viable to support regardless.

    • candyman337@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      16·
      10 months ago

      No they never forced them but they said “hey here’s this really awesome sandboxed platform that runs on almost any os, and it’s a modern browser!” That’s really enticing to a platform like steam where most of their app is web based. Steam isn’t a desktop application, it’s a hybrid application that needs a web browser. Do you know how hard it is to upkeep a modern browser? There’s a reason it’s pretty much only chromium and Mozilla making browsers. It’s not laziness, it made sense, and Google was the only one making anything like that at the time for developers to use.

      Once Google had the market share, they started making changes that they knew would affect everyone using their platform, and that’s how they wanted it.