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Forums - PC - Gabe Newell brands Windows 8 a 'catastrophe'

zarx on 26 July 2012
DirtyP2002 said:
He changes his mind every other day.

There are a bunch of people in this industry who just like to talk a lot.

- Peter Molyneux
- David Cage
- Cliffy B
- Gabe Newell
- Hideo Kojima
- David Jaffe
- Michael Pachter

You get used to it.

give me 5 examples



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Fusioncode on 26 July 2012

Meh, I remember when he insulted the PS3 and changed his mind a few years later when Sony started being nice to him. Like another poster said, he creates these harsh criticisms without any actual reasons.



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Squilliam on 26 July 2012

It's a lose/lose for Valve.

Either it is successful and the Microsoft universal app store takes off or it is unsuccessful and their userbase could decline.



Tease.

iBlah on 26 July 2012



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kitler53 on 26 July 2012
wfz said:
I read a full article on this on Gamasutra I believe, but I don't understand why Gabe says that.

He literally doesn't give a reason.


thanks for saving me the time.  i read the OP and was like "and why....?"



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Millenium on 26 July 2012

Yeah, and as soon as it sells well he'll change his mind (Also without providing a reason ) and support it like with the PS3.



haxxiy on 26 July 2012
Killy_Vorkosigan said:
I agree with him. I don't want to be forced to use touch screen for my PC desktop.

After XP, Vista was released and it was one step backward.
After 7, 8 is released, and it is a step backward.


Exactly. MS always releases a Windows that becomes widely accepted and then the next is a failure. It's mind boggling how it happened pratically every time, it's like they are doing it on purpose.



 

 

 

 

 

Kresnik on 26 July 2012
iBlah said:


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I laughed :P



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TruckOSaurus on 26 July 2012
iBlah said:


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I was just about to say it would continue the streak of a bad Windows OS following a good one but this picture does the job much better.



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TRios_Zen on 26 July 2012

I ran the public beta and release candidate version of Windows 8 and while I think Metro is best suited for a touchscreen interface, the desktop in 8 is almost exactly the same as 7 and boots/responds significantly faster.

I'd *guess* he's more talking philosophically (a closed app store where like Apple for iOS, MS is the gatekeeper) than actual functionality of the OS itself.