Steam will stop working on Windows XP and Vista PCs next year
(PCWorld)

Bad news for owners of dedicated retro rigs: Steam is dropping support for Windows XP and Vista on January 1, 2019, Valve announced this week. And the deadline isn´t just for feature updates. If you´re still running one of those older operating system next year, Steam won´t work on your PC whatsoever.Steam supported the legacy operating systems for far longer than most software, but Valve says the program´s underlying nature requires it to sunset Windows XP and Vista.`The newest features in Steam rely on an embedded version of Google Chrome, which no longer functions on older versions of Windows,` the company wrote. `In addition, future versions of Steam will require Windows feature and security updates only present in Windows 7 and above.`To read this article in full, please click here