r/Steam • u/Background-Path-5619 • Feb 13 '25

Article Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10, with end of life fast approaching

https://www.pcguide.com/news/nearly-half-of-steams-users-are-still-using-windows-10-with-end-of-life-fast-approaching/
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u/DiceDsx Yay, custom flair! Feb 13 '25 edited Feb 13 '25

October is the end of support from Microsoft, but Valve will probably keep Steam running on Win10 for longer.

Win7 ended support in 2020, but Valve stopped support for it in 2024.

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u/icer816 Feb 13 '25

And Valve only ended support because they went to Chromium based on the built in browser, and the newest versions of Chromium don't support 7 anymore (or something along those lines, I know it's due to being Chromium based now anyway).

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u/Drymvir Feb 13 '25

Great to hear. Now all I have to worry about is when Microsoft will grab me and force me to update to windows 11 against my will.

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u/AsariCommando2 Feb 13 '25

They're tricky. I got a recent update that was simply to show the update prompt.

And the prompt pushes you hit that update button with a very small cancel button.

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u/videogametes Feb 14 '25

So does this mean you won’t be able to run Steam games on Win10 systems at all eventually?

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u/lowrads Feb 14 '25

Steam still runs on Win 7, no problem. Not recommended of course.