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🪟 Prediction: Microsoft Is Going To Do The Funniest Thing Imaginable (gamesbymason.com)

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[–] brian@programming.dev 13 points 7 months ago (1 child)

they might ship a proprietary lib with their os, encourage developers to use it, then license it out of being distributed

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[–] misk@piefed.social 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I imagine it’d be more like Android/iOS. Lock down bootloader so you can’t tamper with the OS, enforce notarisation requirement so that apps have to go through them. But Microsoft can’t do that, they don’t have any users vendor-locked to their application store. Valve on the other hand is in a much better position to do this.

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