Nearly 45% of Steam users still on Windows 10 despite looming deadline

According to Steam’s hardware and software survey for January 2025, more than 44 percent of the gaming platform’s users still use Windows 10 while 55 percent use Windows 11, reports PC Guide.

Microsoft has long made it clear that support for Windows 10 will officially end on October 14, 2025. This means that the operating system will no longer receive any new security updates and may become increasingly unstable and vulnerable to malware over time.

Windows 11 was released four years ago and Microsoft has made it free for Windows 10 users to upgrade to the new operating system. At the same time, not everyone has been able to take that free upgrade because Windows 11 has strict hardware requirements that disqualify most older PCs from upgrade eligibility.

If you’re still on Windows 10, it might be time to think about upgrading your PC and switching to Windows 11 ahead of the deadline. Alternatively, you can pay to extend Windows 10 support or keep using Windows 10 while leaving your PC vulnerable.

It’ll be interesting to see how the ratio of Windows 10 and 11 users shifts over the next few months as we head into that deadline.

In other statistics, the Steam hardware survey showed that the most common graphics card among Steam users is a Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 with 16GB of memory and the most common storage size is over 1TB, of which 100GB to 249GB is free space.