pokoko said:
I think the issue people have there is that Microsoft could easily put these games on W7. Like, there is no reason in the world to make them W10 exclusive except to force people to switch to W10. That would be a pretty crappy tactic, to be honest, and I wouldn't blame anyone for being annoyed. No, Microsoft doesn't have to do it but it would win them goodwill if they did. Obviously, though, they are less interested in goodwill than in simply making people move to W10 regardless of the method. They've made that clear and they deserve to get raked over the coals for it. They're being really anti-consumer and they're going to get away with it because they hold a monopoly. |
I can´t say I really agree fully. I agree that they wan´t people to move to W10 but it´s is extremely costly to maintain several OS´s with updates, development cost and new services, especially if you own the largest PC OS in the world by a long shot. Us consumers as a group would benefit greatly if MS could focus only on one OS at a time and put all their resources into it. And MS knows that the competition has grown and that mobile and tablet OS´s binds the users to their OS, making them a competition to Windows. And the likes of Google apply many of the same tactics as MS does right now, because maintaing several OS´s isn´t cost efficient.
