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Steam has now officially stopped supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. (www.theverge.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Steam has now officially stopped supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1.::95.57 percent of surveyed Steam users are already on Windows 10 and 11, with nearly 2 percent of the remainder on Linux and 1.5 percent on Mac — so we may be talking about fewer than 1 percent of users on these older Windows builds. Older versions of MacOS will also lose support on February 15th, just a month and a half from now. Correction: It's macOS 10.13 and 10.14 that are losing support. Not macOS period.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I didn't conceptually hate the UI there was just so much room for improvement in implementation, if I recall correctly. I was only using a Windows machine for a short time during that era though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's why the Win10 start menu was better.
Tiles where it's appropiate and you could even nake the start full screen to top it of.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And then the Windows 11 came in and replaced those sweet flexibility with generic row of icons on top with the app list now in the separate menu and the bottom of the menu is wasted on ads and other garbage

Geez thank you Microsoft, you guys definitely went backwards with this one

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Not like there were sponsored tiles on Win10 (at a minimum 1803 when I started to use Windows professionally and saw lot's of desktops)