Porcupine_I on 14 June 2017
That's the thing though. If someone buys a game on PC, they may play it on a Microsoft platform, but Microsoft doesn't make any profits from that unless they publish it or they sell it in their online store.
You could even say Microsofts platforms are in competition to each other, because Win10 will take away sales from the Xbox division.
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”
- George Orwell, ‘1984’
