Completely out his mind, no wonder he was never put in charge of Epic (until everyone retired/left).
Seriously Epic is just meandering around these days and Tim is better off in the back room. He sounds like he is still stuck in the 90's.
Many of the worlds governments/enterprise sectors are still reliant on Win32 as is Windows, that MS would sabotage that is just insane (& to do it because of video games). All that would do is drive people even further away from Windows into Android.
"Valve tries to stop Microsoft by releasing their own OS but, until then, keep on adding more and more to something that used to be a simple games store."
How about that headline?
nichomach (04-08-2016)
This is a good thing! Windows has been carrying legacy code around for decades. This is one of the factors that contributes to its bloat.
Backward compatibility is important, of course, but when there are good alternatives like VirtualBox or Dosbox, that allow you to run your old software in a sandbox and with good performance, discarding the old code becomes a viable option, and they should do it.
Personaly id rather use a working steam
Experience of games of windows live two iterations where absolutly terrible and resulted in me not playing the games due to "server" losing connection and kicking you out of your game
Dawn of War 2 one example
Sounds like Microsoft may be due for a fresh monopoly lawsuit.
Bingo, developers and Steam write your code for Linux. If I could play games natively on Linux I would drop Windows in a hot minute.
Last edited by peterb; 02-08-2016 at 12:32 PM. Reason: Language/swear filter
The best part is, when you write your code for POSIX/OpenGL/Vulkan, it's trivially portable to just about everywhere else, including Windows. The only sticking point would be for Xbox, and that's only because Microsoft is exploiting their market dominance to ensure vendor lock-in. But if developers just said 'screw it, off to freedomland we go', you can bet Microsoft would have a open API deployment pushed out onto the XBone faster than you can blink.
Oh look, not so loony after all: https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comme...0_anniversary/
Ahh.. Microsoft doesn't learn. Remember the whole Internet Explorer over Netscape debacle in the Good Ol' Windows 9x days? The anti-trust suits... Same deal.
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