| Swordmasterman said: Windows isn't a Plataform, the Hardware is a Plataform and because of that Windows 10 is in Different plataforms, Putting their games on Steam would be the same than putting their games on their "Plataform" they would just need to pay some money for Steam. OS isn't a Plataform and if Sony or Nintendo started to use Windows on their consoles this would not means that they are "Microsoft exclusives". |
In your own limited definition Windows or Windows 10 aren't "a platform".
There are hardware platforms and there are software platforms. "PC" is a platform, but so is "Windows", "Linux", "MacOS" and even "UWP (Universal Windows Platform)" or "Java" or "Adobe Flash".
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plattform_%28Computer%29
"A computing platform is, in the most general sense, whatever a pre-existing piece of computer software or code object is designed to run within, obeying its constraints, and making use of its facilities.
The term computing platform can refer to different abstraction levels, including a certain hardware architecture, an operating system (OS), and runtime libraries.[1] In total it can be said to be the stage on which computer programs can run."
