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Posted June 15, 2021
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timppu: I want to see how Gabe Newell and Tim Sweeney react to those news. Earlier they have been the biggest critics of Windows Store, calling it an attempt for Microsoft to lock down Windows so that competing digital software stores wouldn't have meaningful life in their ecosystem, in the long run.

"Allowing" competing software stores to work through the Windows Store sounds like the familiar "embrace, extend and extinguish"-tactic that Microsoft has used also in the past. First try to make it appear you are their friend, but at the same time taking control over then, etc. etc. We will see. Maybe Valve will put even more effort to their Plan B, Linux gaming.
Valve's disproportionate amount of resources pumped into Proton (relative to Linux's user-base on Steam), certainly makes it look like it's their "backup plan". EA, Ubisoft & Epic could in theory respond by converting their whole catalogue into a subscription / streaming service. I predict if it ever came to that though (MS locking out non-Store windows apps / games installs and go "Full Walled Garden") there would be the mother of all anti-competition lawsuits. That's still not going to do GOG much good though suddenly being left the odd man out with absolutely no backup plan at all. I think GOG definitely need to reconsider having one solid "Linux guy" who's a lot more pro-active than now "just in case", rather than passively coast along oblivious to the obvious. We can already see Microsoft's long-term attitude to GOG with literally not one single title here whatsoever.
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Posted June 15, 2021
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AB2012: I predict if it ever came to that though (MS locking out non-Store windows apps / games installs and go "Full Walled Garden") there would be the mother of all anti-competition lawsuits.
It may depend how the current lawsuit (Fortnite vs. Apple Appstore) goes. If it strongly goes on favor of Apple, then it might be a similar lawsuit against MS Windows Store wouldn't have much more chance.

Also, MS wouldn't have to completely close it down. Just make it a bit more inconvenient to buy and play games from the competing stores, or that they don't have quite the same level of access to Windows (11) advanced gaming features, or whatever.
Post edited June 15, 2021 by timppu
Posted June 16, 2021
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randomuser.833: Just as an idea.
Shouldn't we wait till 24. of june to see what MS does plan?

@timppu
Right now every 6 month update of windows 10 is very close to a releaseupgrade from older to newer windows.
At last the big updates are more like a new install of a new windows and the user data is moved by the installation in the end.
You even got the windows.old folder with your old windows install in it for a possible rollback.

Even if they come up with a new number. There will be less hazzle with upgrading this time. Just because you do it all the time already.
Yes we should, but then they couldn't rant about how much they hate windows for being better
it is clearly a minority complex from the <2%
I wonder when will they start saying win11 is responsible for global warming and childbirth deaths
ms is evil after all
Post edited June 16, 2021 by Orkhepaj
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