Steam dropping windows XP/Vista support

Started by -budd-, December 07, 2018, 10:27:41 AM

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-budd-

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.  ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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*I'm in the Wargamer middle ground*
I don't buy all the wargames I want, I just buy more than I need.

DoctorQuest

I still have an XP partition for some stuff but no Steam games.

I can't say I blame them. They need to focus on OS's that are supported by the OS vendor.
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JasonPratt

I sense the time coming when 8.1 is defunct...  :'(

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Destraex

The question is will steam let old offline versions of steam be used that work on the last patches for these is versions?
"They only asked the Light Brigade to do it once"

JasonPratt

Quote from: Destraex on December 07, 2018, 05:08:02 PM
The question is will steam let old offline versions of steam be used that work on the last patches for these is versions?

I could test that with my ancient Falcon Northwest uber-laptop (a photo for which is still used in their custom photo gallery -- they have a comment about how nearly impossible it was to light the thing to photograph because I took a deep black clearcoat option!), which still runs Win XP (Service Pack 2). If I still remember on Jan 1.  ::)
ICEBREAKER THESIS CHRONOLOGY! -- Victor Suvorov's Stalin Grand Strategy theory, in lots and lots of chronological order...
Dawn of Armageddon -- narrative AAR for Dawn of War: Soulstorm: Ultimate Apocalypse
Survive Harder! -- Two season narrative AAR, an Amazon Blood Bowl career.
PanzOrc Corpz Generals -- Fantasy Wars narrative AAR, half a combined campaign.
Khazâd du-bekâr! -- narrative dwarf AAR for LotR BfME2 RotWK campaign.
RobO Q Campaign Generator -- archived classic CMBB/CMAK tool!