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Windows 7 and 8 now dead for gaming, as new Steam update pulls support (www.pcgamesn.com)
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[–] icedterminal@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

Steam uses the Chromium embedded framework in case anyone doesn't know. This renders the web pages in the Steam client. As mentioned, there's no point in Valve maintaining the code base themselves when upstream Chromium drops support for 7.

This is similar to when browsers dropped support for Flash. Adobe stopped developing it and the major browser vendors removed their in-house flash plugins.