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Sweeney provides this as Microsoft's alleged strategy to get rid of Steam: "Slowly, over the next five years, they will force-patch Windows 10 to make Steam pr
by Sacho 10y ago
Sweeney provides this as Microsoft's alleged strategy to get rid of Steam:
"Slowly, over the next five 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 seems like an ideal alternative. That’s exactly what they did to their previous competitors in other areas. Now they’re doing it to Steam. It’s only just starting to become visible. Microsoft might not be competent enough to succeed with their plan, but they’re certainly trying."
What previous competitors is he talking about?
- 0xcde4c3db 10y agoThere used to be a saying "DOS ain't done 'til Lotus won't run" (although that's now largely regarded as apocryphal/inaccurate), and the memos around the "AARD code" [1] are fairly damning. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code
- 13of40 10y agoThat happened 25 years ago, and even the guy who wrote the code has been dead for eight. I don't think it's a solid data point for predicting what Microsoft is going to do tomorrow.
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- osxrand 10y agoIt could also be how they made QuickTime very (more?) unstable on Windows, or the IE extension in OS 9 that WOZ proved to cause the OS to crash.
- Someone1234 10y agoQuickTime didn't need Microsoft's help. Apple didn't update it aside from security fixes for almost eight years. As an aside do you have any actual evidence that Microsoft made QuickTime more unstable on Windows? Or is that just supposition? PS - OS 9, like Windows 9x, lacked protected memory. So I have no doubt that a leak or other error in IE for Mac could cause the OS to crash. I hardly think that's really solid proof, just more proof that operating systems without memory protection are inherently a bad idea.