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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Games_for_Windows https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Games_for_Windows Microsoft’s incompetence when it comes to building brands t
by jimbob45 6y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Games_for_Windows https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Games_for_Windows
Microsoft’s incompetence when it comes to building brands tickles me to no end. They tried this back in 2006 and it worked as well as you’d predict this new attempt to work. I like to imagine that it’s the same lifer bringing up this same idea every 10 years in some back Microsoft boardroom.
- mtmail 6y agoMicrosoft Passport was their first single-sign-on back in 1999. It might have been the first on the internet. Even then there was a huge backslash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_account#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_account#History
- majewsky 6y agoThis may just be an autocorrect gone wrong, but FYI, you mean "backlash". "Backslash" is the character "\".
- the_solenoid 6y agoHonest question - have you played a windows game in the last 3ish years? GFWL was utter shit, but the current XBL integrations are pretty painless, well integrated, and even ask permission on a per-game basis.