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Remember. M$'s philosophy.If you can't beat them, BUY them. So don;t be surprised if there isn;t an article soon about M$ trying to buy Valve.

Ironically, the Yankees used to do that and they won a lot of championships that way before being caught. :P

I am pretty sure that games aren't the only ones that use win32. That mean that AutoCAD, Photoshop and other programs would need to go through the windows store, never gona happen. Even if it does there is still SteamOS, wait are they still developing the thing or is is dead.

We have a pair of eyes and ears, but only one mouth, to see and hear twice as much than we talk.

those fu bastards blah

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How is this news everywhere. Sweeney is a notorious shit talker and everyone has their pitchforks pointing at MS like what he said is gospel lol

MS have already said that they plan to start releasing their games on Steam.

My company still has a Windows 98 computer running in the warehouse...

Change sometimes takes a loooooong time... Look at how slow Windows & developers were (and still are) to adopt the 64-bit platform...

windows 8.1 for days, f*ck windows 10 :)

Yes, they will surely succeed, like the last time they tried with Games for Windows Live.../obvious sarcasm

I can live never playing a first party M$ game ever again.

WHERE DOES POTATO COME FROM?

News from an old story, thats why steam started SteamOS when win 10 was announced/released, cant remenber exact time.

Slowly, over the next 5 years, they will force-patch Windows 10 to make Steam progressively worse and more broken. They’ll never completely break it, but will continue to break it until, in five years, people are so fed up that Steam is buggy that the Windows Store seem like an ideal alternative

far more likely to make people look for an alternative to Windows 10 than Steam, especially if the popularity (and compatibility) of Linux continues to grow. some developers may be happy to accept bribes to release exclusively for a platform but I don't see many being as keen to risk it for an OS where they can't throw out the usual porting problems excuses

lol, talking about delusion :D

They can try, but I don't think it will happen. Windows store was a failure on 8, and steam has a large enough market share that I think it will be really difficult for MS to bully them on 10. Regardless, I will never put Win10 on any of my devices, nor will I purchase anything from the Windows Store. Here's hoping Vulcan can overcome and make mainstream Linux gaming a reality!

I already feel sorry for Microsoft. :T
Try to beat Android wasn't enough to learn I think.

Judging from the adoption rates of Windows 10, I think MS actually does have a shot at pulling this off. Especially because we all think it's a joke and impossible. From a developer standpoint, using the latest graphics technology and getting instant compatibility with a major console and PC at the same time is a pretty attractive offer. And the fact that we all think it's a joke means that we won't object as loudly to the early moves they make in this direction.

It's not a sure thing, but it's pretty obvious that if they wanted to, they could easily make a try at it.

Unbelievable
Wank
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Good luck, Micro$oft...

Slowly, over the next 5 years, they will force-patch Windows 10 to make Steam progressively worse and more broken. They’ll never completely break it, but will continue to break it until, in five years, people are so fed up that Steam is buggy that the Windows Store seem like an ideal alternative.

Windows 7 users unite.

They break Steam on Windows 10, I can always return to Windows 7 or I can just go Linux if need be, video games are the main thing that locks me into Windows now, they remove that, they remove the last thing keeping me locked in.

I don't think Microsoft will do that.
And if they do, i'll just go back to 8.1.

Even machinima just made a video on it :x

I do believe that Microsoft is capable of doing something. Why? Well, listen.
I just registered to MS One-drive with a friend's refer for him to get more space. I added my email, and waited for a confirmation email, that didn't come. I pressed resend. I got the email a few minutes later. I pressed the "Check Emailt" button, which emptied the email's text part, and nothing happened. Then I realized, that they fucked it up, and didn't make it as it would open in a new tab. Okay, right click, open in new tab. The link is used up, not valid. Okay, ask for new confirmation email. Unexpected error in service, page went down, can't ask a confirmation email.
So yeah,they have a potenty of taking down Steam on Windows - when they fuck up Windows so hard that it can't even be started.