Hundreds of games not playable on Windows 10 due no support for Safedisc and SecuROM

Games that feature copy protections like Safedisc and SecuROM won't play on Windows 10, according to a marketing manager from Microsoft. This means that hundreds of old games that are protected by these protections will no longer run on Microsoft's latest operating system.

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Rock Paper Shotgun reports this based on an interview which Microsoft's Windows marketing manager Boris Schneider-Johne had with Rocket Beans TV. In the interview he states, "everything that ran in Windows 7 should also run in Windows 10. There are just two silly exceptions: antivirus software and stuff that’s deeply embedded into the system needs updating – but the developers are on it already – and then there are old games on CD-Rom that have DRM."

According to Schneider Johne the copy protections like Safedisc and SecuROM integrate so deeply in the system that it would be a "possible loophole for computer viruses."

That loophole was a already reality in 2007, when a security issue in Safedisc was found that allowed local users to overwrite arbitrary memory locations and gain privileges. Even malware exploiting this vulnerability was found in 'the wild'.

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Although Microsoft's decision to no longer support these protections might be good for security, there will still be a lot of disappointed users that were planning to play old games on Windows 10.

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