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"I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space. I think we’ll lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs, who will exit the market. I think margins wil

"I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space. I think we’ll lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs, who will exit the market. I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people. If that’s true, then it will be good to have alternatives to hedge against that eventuality." - Gabe Newell https://www.neowin.net/news/valve-co-founder-windows-8-is-a-catastrophe/ https://www.neowin.net/news/valve-co-founder-windows-8-is-a-... Take a wild guess when they started pushing steam on linux, and which version of windows introduced a store.

dagmx 2y ago
Yeah, the existence of SteamOS, Steam Machines and eventually Proton were a hedge against Microsoft’s perceived shift into locked down distribution . I think a lot of folk have a hard time reconciling that there may have been non-altruistic intentions behind something that is enjoyed today. Similarly, Steam itself was a hedge against physical distribution to cut out the middleman. It wasn’t originally envisioned as a store for anyone but Valve. But here we are today, and both have positive side effects that actually have outlived the original design.