Look at him. He is fat and chubby. Almost anyone could steal his lunch money and get away with it.

Remember, the data about new Windows versions adoption rate is based on all users. It includes schools and business, that are slow to upgrade because of the large amount of machines, non-tech savy users who don't know/care, moms and dads, etc. High-end PC gamers, Steam's public, are more bleeding edge. And with DX12 being a W10 exclusive while bringing significant performance improvements, they can speed up the adoption rate for PC gamers.

The moneyhatting for exclusives is something that can hurt Valve. MS probably paid a lot of money to get some games out of PS4 (since it involves losing millions in sales), so they aren't afraid to pay. It would be cheaper too since they wouldn't be removing the game of a platform, but just changing the way to get it.

Will PC gamers need to pay for a Live account in order to play cross platform games. If so, it's already DOA. The only real benefit is for people who already have an Xbox One. What they are doing is trying to create cross platform sales. In other words, if you have an Xbox One you Are More likly to upgrade your OS.

A PC gamer is much more likely to get Windows 10 and invest the cost of an Xbox One into a graphics card.

Steam isn't at risk. Not even close.

Yeah i can see them lining up to ditch there $1000's game collection to switch to a portal that allows them to buy X1 games and record there steam library that they just ditched.

I use Linux, so I can see what Steam OS will have. Metro Last Light/2033, Borderlands 2/Pre-sequel, Xcom: Enemy Within/Enemy Unknown, Serious Sam 3, Football Manager 2015, Half-life 1/2, Counter-strike (all), Civilization V, Portal 1/2, The Witcher 2, Total War, Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead 2, Dead Island and a lot of indies.

So we have a bunch of games that were on other platforms years ago being late ported, a lot of indies and not a single one of the top selling franchises that launched on next gen consoles and PCs.

I mean, the biggest advantage of a gaming PC turned into a console is that it have all the major games. Valve just removed the advantage. The most graphically advanced title on this list is Metro Last Light, also on PS4.

m$ will have to be realy cheap to beat steam and all the sites that make pc gaming cheap.(bundlestar, humblebundle...)

And if games are cheaper at MS store? You don't have to throw your Steam games away, but maybe you won't buy new ones there simply because MS has better pricing options.

And if some newer games are MS store exclusives?

No chance, the Steam community is too great with tons of free games and the amazing Steam deals can't be beat. Plus Half-Life.