Valve has announced that their popular gaming client,
Steam, will stop supporting the
Windows XP and
Windows Vista operating systems from January 1, 2019 onwards. They made this announcement recently on
their website:
Starting on January 1 2019, Steam will officially stop supporting the Windows XP and Windows Vista operating systems. This means that after that date the Steam Client will no longer run on those versions of Windows. In order to continue running Steam and any games or other products purchased through Steam, users will need to update to a more recent version of Windows.
Source: Valve
Also of note was that users who are currently still on either the
XP or
Vista operating systems will not be able to access certain features of
Steam, such as the updated
Steam Chat, which is currently in Open Beta. Head over to
the chat features page to find out more about the newly revamped
Steam Chat.
Nonetheless,
Steam will continue to function in running games on both of the aforementioned operating systems for the remainder of this year.