Game platform Steam officially stop supporting for Windows XP/Vista

Steam has announced in advance last year that it will end its support for the Windows XP and Windows Vista platforms from January 1, 2019.

On these old platforms, users can no longer run Steam, let alone upgrade versions, and users must upgrade to at least Windows 7 or above.

“For the remainder of 2018 Steam will continue to run and to launch games on Windows XP and Windows Vista, but other functionality in Steam will be somewhat limited. For example, new features such as the new Steam Chat will not be available. We encourage all users on these operating systems to upgrade to newer versions of Windows in order to have ongoing access to the latest features of Steam, and to ensure future access to all games and other Steam content.”

The use of these old systems that have been stopped by Microsoft is also a security risk. After all, various vulnerabilities will not be fixed even if they are discovered.

So if you want to continue to play the game steadily, you should upgrade Windows 7 and above as soon as possible. After all, more and more software no longer supports the old system.

Of course, there are very few users who stop supporting the impact. The Steam platform users still use Windows XP only about 0.12%.

Windows Vista users account for a lower percentage, which is almost negligible, so it doesn’t have much impact on most users.