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Even Windows XP was collecting data on its users. Remember XPAntispy?
And this is why: Steam uses the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) inside of the steam client app. Google announced earlier this year that they will end support for Windows 7 for CEF on Jan 1 2024. Because steam uses CEF inside of the steam client then they also have to end support for Windows 7 on Jan 1 2024.
You are wrong to be mad at Valve/Steam. It's not their fault that Google ended Win7 support for CEF. You should be mad at Google for this. NOT STEAM.
Technology progression and deprecation has been the name of the game since the first room sized computer spun up its tape reel and consumed its first punch card. The advancement of technology has been both a boon and a curse to us as a society, but we also continue to grow and advance, like our technology.
Posting in a forum will not change the reality of the course of history, nor the future of technology progression. If anyone wants things to truly be different than how they are today, then it is done via laws and regulations implemented by governing bodies. Anyone can complain all they want here to high heaven, but unless they grow a set of cojones and make an attempt at actual change, then technology progression will continue to march on and trample anyone under foot that refuses to March with it.
Those are the consequences of choices.
Chromium Embedded Framework is not made by Google.
Chromium on which CEF is based is not made by Google.
Chrome, which is based on Chromium is made by Google.
First of all, it is cOjones, and second I am not really a fan of Win 7 but it is the best modern MS OS, I also never liked XP much - 2k was my choice and it could be even modified to be kind of equal to XP. Also it does not need cojones, it just needs money, and you discriminate the poor for making you rich in this capital accumulating system.
What you call progress is just bloatware consuming more power, but itself being of lower production quality and decresed security - because higher complexity of code does automatically make it weaker to attacks - so that more power consuming CPUs have something to do, It is almost the same with games, yes graphics still slightly improve, but the costs of it are nowhere rectifiable for this power consumption. Since Almost 20 years I watch the same quality of videos, and since Guildwars 1 Nightfall there has not been any mindbending progress as of how good graphics can look. It might always look slightly better, but in the end, the LOVE you invest into a game does produce better results, than any kind of massive shader stacks or whatever can bring to you, it is the experience you make with a game, by how it is designed, and not how detailed it is. It is the reiablity of the code, the stability of the gaming experience.
I don't udnerstand people like you, who always think that buying the newest crap is automatically superior, after experiencing it from my youth onward over the decades, I know gaming is not improving - technology is not improving much, and we are not going to solve anything with more power consumption and bigger machines.
The only thing that would for once do it, would just stick with one OS and keep on improving it.
It is the same with Linux, people remake all kind of distros and repeat the same crap over and over, never making really anything new, or anything that does appeal to normal people, because you need to follow a guide TO CHANGE A SIMPLE DRIVE.
And everyone has an opinion on what the best OS is. But that's all it is, an opinion. And that opinion doesn't change the facts of the course of progress in our technological advancement.
Oh, I did not realize I am the Father of capitalism or have all this money laying around. Thanks for pointing it out to me, now I won't need a second job to pay for my medical bills or a GoFundMe to pay for the vet bills and care of the stray cats I've taken in.
Oh wait, it's all a deflection to avoid the facts of history and taking personal responsibility for one's choices.
And again your opinion is meaningless unless you plan on actually doing something that may bring about actual change. Posting here on a forum certainly isn't going to do it, no matter how much you talk about meaningless things like graphical fidelity in a game. There's more to technological progress than just that.
I never said that the newest stuff is always better. Thats not what technology progression has been, nor what it is. Sometimes there are things that are better, and sometimes there are things that are not, but part of progressing is learning from things that are not better and making improvements from there. Again your opinion on how much things improve is immaterial to history and the facts.
So, at the end of the day, you, like all the others complaining about "the system" will do nothing to actually make an attempt to change how it works and would rather just complain and deflect in a meaningless forum. Got it.
Its fine if you think win 7 is what you believe instead. But at least dont make up stuff.
Microsoft wants companies to use their os. And to pay for their services. Do you really think what you said is true?
What is this progress you are talking about, doing the same stuff you did with machines that consume less energy now with machines that are bigger and use more pwoer, and also on top do a better job at spying on you, and make it possible to access you private files at any time, because they are being scanned by "the security system" ?
Do you really believe, that you can write a document on a windows pc and if it contains important information it will not be inspected by microsoft or the people behind it, that have the backdoor codes to do whatever they want, whenever they want ?
Windows is just a platform that makes sure that every company that uses it does not have any advantage over main technologies that are of strategic interest for a certain country where the os comes from. You know, Industryespionage is a thing.
Yes I do exactly that to see how people try to blame me for doing more than them doing themselves. I do not necessarily have to believe in a better system, you can easily see that from my position on Operating Systems, I do not believe that there are really good ones at all, and there will never be one.
Because all we do is just a tool or a scheme to trick people into spending more money and achieve nothing more, just reinvent using a pc by making it consume more power for the same job.
People use the word progress frequently, when they want to express something, they do not even know what it means, they have some idea on their mind that shines, but when it comes to reality, progress means just to waste further ammounts of ressources to achieve nothing of any kind of substance.
Yes, and I am talking about the discrimination of people who refuse to use every new more modern tool, os, software, patch, UI, etc. whatever, and how the system of discrimination works and makes you think you are doing the right thing, if you discriminate people who do not go with the so called progress, which is nothing but a hollow phrase to give life a potential meaning, without even knowhing where progress should lead to, and if we are even on track to it.
You are wrong.
Chromium is a Google project.
CEF is used to encapsulate Chromium in other applications and is based on Chromium (not the other way around)
While Chromium is an Open Source project this doesn't mean it's not made (mainly developed) and owned by Google. This is a common misconception