Cylosis

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http://store.steampowered.com/news/8584/

Launch Set of "Software" Titles Coming Sept 5

Aug 8, 2012 -- Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced the first set of Software titles are heading to Steam, marking a major expansion to the platform most commonly known as a leading destination for PC and Mac games.

The Software titles coming to Steam range from creativity to productivity. Many of the launch titles will take advantage of popular Steamworks features, such as easy installation, automatic updating, and the ability to save your work to your personal Steam Cloud space so your files may travel with you.

More Software titles will be added in an ongoing fashion following the September 5th launch, and developers will be welcome to submit Software titles via Steam Greenlight.

"The 40 million gamers frequenting Steam are interested in more than playing games," said Mark Richardson at Valve. "They have told us they would like to have more of their software on Steam, so this expansion is in response to those customer requests."

For more information, please visit www.steampowered.com.
 

PsychoRealm

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I can see Steam selling Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Office 2012.... Yeah, right...
It takes 5 hours to download freaking 500MB update.. What is it gonna take to download Win7 DVD which is 4.5GB? 3 days? lmao..
 

mohawkg2

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I can see Steam selling Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Office 2012.... Yeah, right...
It takes 5 hours to download freaking 500MB update.. What is it gonna take to download Win7 DVD which is 4.5GB? 3 days? lmao..
As long as it takes for you to download a game...? lol
 

PsychoRealm

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As long as it takes for you to download a game...? lol
I was not the only one struggling to download Meet the Pyro update when other 40 million players were getting it as well. Plus, I might've exaggerated a bit about 5 hours but it was still long enough.
 

JosieWoman125

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Wait is Steam selling their Steam software or is this another way to store the games in a safe place.