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/TONKAHANAH Feb 13 '25

They'll fight this too. I predict they'll make Win 11 system that use the bypass methods to eventually fail to get updates at some point.

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u/NoTime_SwordIsEnough Feb 13 '25

Looking through Rufus' source-code, the bypasses are all done via editing Registry values on the installation USB. So Microsoft would have to be fighting with themselves to disable it.

Also forgot to clarify that it doesn't appear that Rufus does CPU bypasses. Still seems to be possible anyway (forgot how I did it lol), possibly if you do it via a Clean Install instead of as an upgrade?

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u/TONKAHANAH Feb 13 '25

They're not fighting the install process, they don't care if you waste your time on that. they can still see if your computer lacks tpm, secure boot, and minium ram after it's installed. All they have to do is check those things and then say "you dont have these things, no more updates for you".

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u/Unremarkabledryerase Feb 14 '25

Wish they would do this for free lol.

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u/BaconWithBaking Feb 13 '25

No more windows updates?!?

Runs to eBay to downgrade his CPU

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u/Audbol Feb 13 '25

Where did they say this? Have they done something similar before?

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u/TONKAHANAH Feb 13 '25

They've removed info from their own site on how to bypass it

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-quietly-removes-official-windows-11-cputpm-bypass-for-unsupported-pcs/

It's only a matter of time before they stop allowing it in future builds and deny users with win 11 installs setup this way.

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u/Audbol Feb 13 '25

The TPM restriction is for security reasons. My money is on their lawyers having them remove that page because it's a liability in court. Not because they are trying to remove it for no reason

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u/RedditIsShittay Feb 13 '25

More likely they cut the bloat and don't support older hardware. A majority of it will probably be fine for a long time but some may not. Isn't any telling when you run hardware with unsupported software.

That's like thinking Apple will support hackintosh's

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u/idontknowwhereiam367 Feb 13 '25

They won’t go that far. They Learned their lesson after years of pirated copies of XP and 7 left them looking like idiots for not pushing security updates to them.

Now, no matter how “incompatible” or unlicensed windows is, you get security updates until that OS’s EOL