Is it my imagination or is steam omitting "windows 7" from community search results ?

Originally posted by AC Dosage:

Is it my imagination or is steam omitting "windows 7" from community search results ?

Just tried and I get precisely 16,209 hits for "Windows 7" (without quote marks) in the search box. The search was in this forum only: Hardware and Operating Systems

I usually search all discussions with no forum selected and i get no results for windows 7 but can choose any random word to search for and get hundreds of pages of results.

Just something to be aware of.

Originally posted by Lou:

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If you have such high demands for your systems, hardware and software you're going to have to be more choosey about what you choose to use and be constantly proactive about how that software or companies evolve. You can't just mindlessly install popular software and get all fussed when it turns out they don't reflect your values and goals back at you. You were never promised the things you're requesting. And you're not owed them.

When you use other people's software sometimes your rights and values end where there's begin. If that's not satisfactory you have to decide whether or not you continue using the software or service. NO business is beholden to your high minded ideals.

If Windows 7/8 support is the last straw for you, so be it. But the reality is it doesn't affect 99% of users, so Valve will be just fine regardless of your decision. They'll be just fine if 100% of existing Windows 7/8 users decide to follow your example.

♥♥♥♥ YOU STEAM!!!!

I see no reason they can't leave a legacy installer out there. I see no reason there can't be a legacy installer that works like having the steam in offline mode.

I understand the reason is less security and more making people upgrade and more importantly upgrade systems so they can sell more product. If a game requires win 10, they want you to be forced to be able to buy everything.

a lot of people are more concerned by giving up security to marketing and telemetry that companies have been forcing and increasing with every newer OS.

A legacy Steam would allow me to set up and offline hard drive, for all the old steam games.

Again I understand a solution like that, does not allowed continued sales.

You do not get to choose my OS for me.
Please define "the Steam Client will no longer run on those versions of Windows". Steam will work on Win7, and will continue to past the countdown. That's why there's a countdown- so that some moderator can press a button that checks the OS and says "We now intentionally stop this program from functioning."
Why should anyone change their fully working operating system when Windows10's only feature is that it's creators wanted to sell something.

Originally posted by plat:

Not to be a Debby Downer (well.. yes, actually I am) but...the clock is ticking even now for Windows 10. Micro had better stick to its promise and that's EOL in October 2025.

The clock is ticking on everything, always. Entropy.

Why should Microsoft "stick to a promise" though? Changing plans if circumstances don't end up as desired is a good thing; it's being flexible.

Obviously Microsoft's current wish is to end support for it on the date they have stated, but if that date comes and there's more people still using it than they want, then continuing support a bit longer is probably the better option compared to having that many unsupported systems out there, no?

Sticking to something you've identified as a worse option just because you said differently once upon a time seems like the worse way to go.

Any lawyer here? Can we sue Steam for this? They are basically force everybody to change their OS and stop customers from using the programs they already paid for. Is this kind of behaviors even allowed?

Originally posted by revenant_k:

Any lawyer here? Can we sue Steam for this? They are basically force everybody to change their OS and stop customers from using the programs they already paid for. Is this kind of behaviors even allowed?

Has happened for about 2 decades yet. Started with Windows 2000, now with Windows 7 and 8/8.1, as well as outdated/unsupported MacOS.

What do you think will happen next?

After Microsoft ended support for Windows 7 (and 8), Steam and Chrome begins first as a global market leading platform.

Many will follow soon.. Antivir, Drivers and Software of all kind, ...

https://steamhost.cn/hwsurvey/
(click on "OS Version" line)

Just about 1% of Steam's userbase is affected, the majority will switch to Windows 10/11..

Time to ditch Steam and join GOG.

Drivers and Software stopped supporting Win7 years ago already.

Originally posted by revenant_k:

Time to ditch Steam and join GOG.

Imagine GOG's installers wont work on Windows 7 in near future. Just like everything else, as runtimes are simply outdated and stuff..

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Drivers and Software stopped supporting Win7 years ago already.

Though websites still host official drivers and software for Windows 7 machines, yet..

You don't have to use any GOG installer.
You can simply go into your web browser > GOG website > login and go to your Games and download the game. You do not have to install the GOG Game Client.

Originally posted by N3tRunn3r:

Though websites still host official drivers and software for Windows 7 machines, yet..

Outdated legacy drivers, yes. Not newly updated ones.