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Take out win32, take out some business apps as well. Microsoft taking high market risks (both consumer & business), anti-consumer and would force them to develop a diversification strategy into separate operating systems for tablets and energy aware laptops that would be probably still mostly use 32-bit cpu's for a long time. Just my 2 yen.

Isn't the keyword that Tim "thinks"?

Newsflash: a corporation has plans to get in on a market where there is revenue to be had.

It's one thing to compete but sleazy to try and ruin Steam via Win 10 updates. If what that Tim guy said is true, and Steam progressively gets worse, I'd have no problem switching over to Linux or something, and therefor Microsoft losing me and many others as customers.

Welp, Ubuntu it is then

I think Micro$hit forgot, that there is as well Origin, BattleNet, Uplay, GOG etc. They want fight with all of them?

FUNNY! They will lose. xD

Linux it is, then.

Steam don't need Microsoft to become worse and more broken.

Microsoft has a long history of trying to pull stunts like this. It's always backfired before, it will backfire again, and they'll probably never learn.

They already did it once with DOS games and the transitional period that was Windows 95 and 98. No reason to doubt they won't try again, Microsoft were late to the app store party with Windows 8 and are trying to catch up for lost time.

If you want to play DOS games today, you need DOSBOX. While it's unlikely that in 5 or 6 years you will be required to run VirtualBox to play all your 'old' Windows games, it's going to happen eventually.

i'll stick with win 7 if they do dis '_'

Didn't they already try that by forcing GFWL down our throats? And how did that go? What's that, it doesn't exist anymore? How unfortunate...

When has Microsoft ever succeeded in taking over the standard within legal means? Netscape

This is nothing new.

GabeN already got scared of that, that is why he made SteamOS.

There's a big difference between 'Tim Sweeney thinks X' and 'X'.

Tim Sweeney is just talking shit, he hates Microsoft and that's why he's spreading bullshit about Microsoft. I'm pretty sure that Microsoft doesn't have any plans to take down Steam in the future. They even confirmed that they will release new games on Steam and allowed Steam to release on Windows Phone.

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Microsoft is a dumb company. They are not succesfull at anything.

so many people believing this bullshit lol

People will be more willing to change OS than to use windows store.
It's not like "My 4000 games steam account can't be used because of a buggy client, I'll no longer use steam" will be a thing.
Internet is still a factor a lot of industries don't consider. People, especially gamers, inform themselves.
Valve is a money-eating piece of shit, but still it offers a lot of privileges that other platforms don't.
You can get free useless games that give you cards that you can sell to others to get the games you want. Nothing else does that because it's too much work.

I'm not a steam enthusiast, but I have a lot of games on steam that I will refuse to lose. There will always be Win7 versions somewhere to install that you can go back to and that they can do nothing about because you will never upgrade them somehow.
Maybe the steam community will shrink someday, but it will hardly die.

Valve bought our fidelity with cards and skins.
Microsoft reduced our choices with forced upgrades and spywares, now trying to kill the tool most of windows users have to play games. And in the worst of ways, subtly.

If I had to choose between Steam and Microsoft, I'd drop Microsoft. Mind that I didn't say "I'd choose Steam" on purpose. I hate them both, but Microsoft is the worst between them.

In case you were still wondering if you should update to windows 10.

Hope this will happen... Ditched Microsft for more than 4 years for Linux, I don't care what happens to Microsoft and their Trojan Horse aka Windows 10

It sounds out there, but he's not the first person to think M$ could go down this path. After all, Gaben didn't start SteamOS project because he was bored.

Great. Now we need Randy Pitcford to confirm, Peter Molyneux to state that his studio was closed down as part of a global conspiracy (not because it was a bottomless money pit with no results), and maybe Tim Schafer to come up with something even more sinister, and we have all nutjobs saying MicroSoft is the Satan, yadda yadda yadda. rolls eyes

Somebody really should tell Sweeney that we are not in 2001 any more.

in five years, people are so fed up that Steam is buggy that the Windows Store seem like an ideal alternative.
Windows Store seem like an ideal alternative.
ideal alternative

I can't stop laughing xD

Sure thing Tim. MS are not dumb enough to take down Steam.

I'm surprised many of you in this thread are believing this guy.