Steam to drop support for windows 7 and 8 in 2024
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The problem is that old hardware and software 'suddenly' doesn't work anymore or has significant performance decreases on the newer Windows versions, or when mandatory updates are introduced.
Your machine could be running flawlessly and then suddenly a compulsory update drops and a key piece of software starts bugging out.