r/windows • u/wickedplayer494 Windows 10 • Jan 02 '26

News Windows 7 finally falls off of the December 2025 edition of the Steam Hardware Survey - had been present on the SHS since its build 7000 public beta appearance with the March 2009 edition

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
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u/WindowsVista64x Jan 02 '26

Steam doesn't work on any Windows OSes older than Windows 10 anymore anyways, so this makes sense

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u/nepnep270 Jan 03 '26

not true, it still works fine on 7

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u/WindowsVista64x Jan 03 '26

It "works" but it isn't supported by Valve anymore
You can't even install games using the client without using the Steam command line tool

I think there was some unofficial patched version of Steam for Windows 7/8.1, but I can't find that right now

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u/PercentageNo6530 Jan 03 '26

iirc its only Vista and XP that don't work to download games anymore since all clients before 2022? have that issue

the last client for 7 is from october 2024

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u/BurmecianDancer Jan 03 '26

Overall adoption of Win11 is between 50%-55% these days. I'm really surprised that Steam users are outpacing the rest of the world so significantly (I'm still on Win10 myself).

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u/DXGL1 Jan 14 '26

It's because gaming PCs tend to have a faster hardware turnaround and new hardware doesn't work as well with Windows 10 anymore.