What's irrelevant is your post since it doesn't reflect the following
1. U.S. and E.U legal judgements against MSFT.
2. MSFT's market power to shape the Wintel PC standard. I have gave you two recent changes on the Wintel PC. MSFT carried on with their Windows logo program.
Pointing to Google's examples are powerful counter-arguments against the regulators.
Note that E.U. is looking at Google's monopolistic practises.
3. MSFT's ability stop 3rd party apps.
@tormentos said:
increasing windows sales have nothing to do with the fact that PC is a damn open market,in fact windows 10 was being given Free so how does making a PC game helped sell something that was free
Wrong, you didn't factor the following;
1. Increasing Windows sales/install base are one of the primary profit driver for MSFT.
2. The primary driver to increase Windows sales/install base over the alternative OS is Windows apps i.e. specifically Windows X86 apps, hence an open 3rd party market is primary driver for Windows being selected over other alternative OS options.
Open 3rd party market helps Microsoft to be the dominant player in PC industry.
A shift to MIPS64 or Alpha or Itanium CPUs will kill MSFT i.e. it renders every full feature OS competitors an even playing field.
For Wintel PC, the end user only pays a single access tax for Windows. Indirectly, a proper commercial developer pays for publishing certificate to avoid the un-user friendly warning message.
The above message has stop my Mum and Dad from installing 3rd party apps without a Windows publishing certificate.
For Windows, MSFT has control over certificate authority companies i.e. MSFT sets the standard for Windows related certificates.
For game consoles, the end user pays separate access tax for each console game.
3. Windows 10 being free has other MSFT profit motivations
- Accelerated Windows/Xbox store user install base increase. The primary opponents are not Sony nor Nintendo i.e. it's Google's Play and Apple's iTunes/App store.
- Accelerated Microsoft Cortana install base increase which uses Bing search engine. The primary opponents are not Sony nor Nintendo i.e. it's Google's search engine.
- Windows 10+DirectX12 combo has nullified Windows 7+AMD Mantle combo i.e. it rendered AMD Mantle economically non-viable for 3rd parties which is effectively dead. AMD's argument on buying Windows 10 at a cost for Mantle like improvements was killed by MSFT with a free upgrade to Windows 10.
Windows 10 is effectively MSFT's Google's free Android OS with Google services business model.
@tormentos said:
But wait can you play xbox one games on PC.?
That's irrelevant to the Windows ownership issue.
But wait can you play PS2 or Vita games on PS4?
@tormentos said:
NO MS can only revoke your license if you DO something that violate the EUELA not because they say you know what i don't feel like letting you use windows any more,they CANT DO THAT when you payed for a product,and yes we all know how many billions MS has pay in fines because of their acts.
Windows EULA states YOU are licensing the product and it's NOT SOLD to YOU i.e. MSFT still owns Windows.
From Windows 8 EULA
If Microsoft breaches any part of this agreement, Microsoft is only liable for the cost of this software i.e. Windows. In another words, they CAN DO THAT i.e. breach their own agreement.
Since Windows 10 upgrade is provided free, if Microsoft decides to breach their own agreement; the cost to MSFT is zero. Good tactical move on MSFT's part.
Since Windows 8, 8.1 and 10's machine login access are bias towards live.com/xbox.com user logins i.e. MSFT makes it harder to create local logins for the home users
Windows 7 is the last Windows OS as we know it i.e. like MS-DOS/Windows 1.0.
Stop denying Wintel PC standard is not owned by Microsoft and Intel.
Let me make this simple for you blind lemming can you play xbox one games on PC.?
Phisically insert and install an xbox game on PC.?
Can you publish game on xbox one without MS concent.?
Can you publish games on PC without MS concent.?
Your whole wintel crap argument like always is a total derail so you can argue something that NO ONE was ARGUING.
Just because MS say on the EUELA that they can come to your house and kill you if you stop using windows doesn't mean the LEGALY can even if you agree to it,and this is were your argument fail.
Fact is unless you breach contract MS can't terminate your software without any reason just for fun.
So once again the argument is the xbox one LOSS 1 exclusive,having the game on PC HURTS the xbox one because now you don't need an xbox one for it,that is call a loss a multiplatform in other words,if this continues the xbox will loss its reason for being alive,which bring me to my other point i think this moves are being done because MS is moving its series to PC and leaving the xbox brand to die or sell it.
@aia89: Actually it doesn't.
It does the more exclusive xbox games land on PC,more and more irrelevant the xbox one becomes,if i can get all xbox games on PC why would i want an xbox for specially when PC has free online play,and has many more games the xbox one doesn't play.
The same apply to any console as i already told you you lemmings did care about exclusives last gen this one you don't is sad.
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