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Steam Ate Microsoft's Lunch On PC, It's About To Do The Same On Handhelds (kotaku.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah, Microsoft has had brief moments like this but systematically they have behaved consistently like the only thing that matters to them is enshittifying the work environment of office workers.

The examples you gave are interesting precisely because they are a brief departure from the norm.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Microsoft made Flight Simulator before they made Windows, so I'm sure they must have cared about games more during that time period.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

I am not saying microsoft hasn't dipped their toes in to pc gaming but for a company of that size that is really the most you can say of their efforts compared to the immense solidity, staying power and loyalty pc gaming embued in windows for younger people growing up with computers (not saying this category of people liked windows just that they valued it).

This is ALL gone and microsoft is about to figure out that while business tools are their main industry the supposedly impenetrable moat they thought that gave them was far more a byproduct of a generation of nerds growing up pooring time into windows before they ever even entered the workforce than it was a dynamic of their dominance in corporate business software.

Whoopsie!