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    Re: Epic CEO: Microsoft will hobble Steam via Windows 10 updates

    Quote Originally Posted by DanceswithUnix View Post
    There may be an element of the old adage "Don't attribute something to malice that can be explained by simple incompetence"
    Normally I agree with that idiom, however, in this case, Microsoft has a clear history of maliciously behaving anti-competitively.
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    Re: Epic CEO: Microsoft will hobble Steam via Windows 10 updates

    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.

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    Re: Epic CEO: Microsoft will hobble Steam via Windows 10 updates

    "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?

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    Re: Epic CEO: Microsoft will hobble Steam via Windows 10 updates

    Quote Originally Posted by DanceswithUnix View Post
    The last time I tried running an old retro game on 64 bit Windows 10 I had to download VirtualBox, dig out an old XP install disc and run it in an XP VM. No amount of running as administrator or with various compatibility options would get the damned thing running native.
    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.

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    Re: Epic CEO: Microsoft will hobble Steam via Windows 10 updates

    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

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    Re: Epic CEO: Microsoft will hobble Steam via Windows 10 updates

    Quote Originally Posted by DanceswithUnix View Post
    To be clear, I'm not saying MS intentionally nobbled that old game, I'm saying they don't give a hoot about old software other than trying to claim billions of old applications available despite lots of them probably not functioning any more.
    Why should MS care 'that much' when they know that you CAN run it within a VM with the free Hyper-V option? Maybe blame the game devs that release a game then fail, pretty much most of the time, to support said game. WHY blame MS? They didn't write the damn game!

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    Re: Epic CEO: Microsoft will hobble Steam via Windows 10 updates

    Sounds like Microsoft may be due for a fresh monopoly lawsuit.

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    Re: Epic CEO: Microsoft will hobble Steam via Windows 10 updates

    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

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    Re: Epic CEO: Microsoft will hobble Steam via Windows 10 updates

    Quote Originally Posted by ricksavoie View Post
    Bingo, developers and Steam write your code for Linux.
    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.
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    Re: Epic CEO: Microsoft will hobble Steam via Windows 10 updates

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    Re: Epic CEO: Microsoft will hobble Steam via Windows 10 updates

    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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