Note that Steam only dropped XP support 4 years after Microsoft did.
Software, even sprinkled with art, is not a usable fuel or a perishable good.
As I said elsewhere, I have no issues with software companies deciding to drop support, but they should also then forfeit their copyright (earlier than normal) and release the source code.
For a store/launcher like Steam, they should remove the DRM. In fact, if I'm not mistaken, Gabe specifically promised to do that when Steam was first introduced, to assuade the fears over DRM !
EDIT : I stopped reading what passes for "communication" on that link on the first page. Note also that I'm raising a somewhat different issue : Steam dropping support for an OS, which OS is the only one that some of the Steam-sold games are working on. (This is certainly going to concern many more games for Win7 than it did for Vista, XP, 2k(?)...)
Software, even sprinkled with art, is not a usable fuel or a perishable good.
As I said elsewhere, I have no issues with software companies deciding to drop support, but they should also then forfeit their copyright (earlier than normal) and release the source code.
For a store/launcher like Steam, they should remove the DRM. In fact, if I'm not mistaken, Gabe specifically promised to do that when Steam was first introduced, to assuade the fears over DRM !
EDIT : I stopped reading what passes for "communication" on that link on the first page. Note also that I'm raising a somewhat different issue : Steam dropping support for an OS, which OS is the only one that some of the Steam-sold games are working on. (This is certainly going to concern many more games for Win7 than it did for Vista, XP, 2k(?)...)