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Steam on Windows 10 will get progressively worse in 5 years

• WorldMaker 10y ago
  Win32 isn't going anywhere, anytime soon, and Microsoft isn't likely to sabotage Win32 just to kick people off Steam. Outside of games, there are millions and millions of Win32 apps in the wild and Enterprise customers that rely on them. Microsoft has already addressed some of these concerns (modern apps can be sideloaded by default since last November; Steam already has the power to sell modern apps) and is working to further increase the openness in the modern platform (better mod tooling support, for instance). It does seem like Microsoft is working hard to balance openness of the platform and security/reliability. I suppose it doesn't hurt to keep reminding Microsoft that we all love for the platform to trend towards openness (and I know a lot of the people at Microsoft want that too, because many of them started out doing interesting things with that openness themselves). It just doesn't seem likely that Microsoft is that bent upon "killing Steam" to go to the lengths and efforts Mr. Sweeney suggests here. They've got plenty of other reasons why people use PCs and Windows beyond gaming.