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.

Would be awesome if true. Would not be awesome if tied into UWP.

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.

It's not even several OS's they have to deal with, it;s just 7 and 8 they deal with. THey aren't strapped for cash at all when it comes to dishing out a few patches par the course with any OS mind you, they splash out money like no ones business so we definitely cannot call MS a poor company that needs to keep it;s eyes tightly on that pool of cash.

They don't even need to dish out the same services on 7-8, just making sure that the games work on 7-8 is more than enough, unless of course we go with the forced monopoly route a la the Windows 10 store which is of course the absolute only way to play anything MS related on PC in recent years and that shows just how little options they have created for us as consumers, that is to say not a great idea disagreement or not. 

We would benefit greatly from a one world order, from having one type of currency, one type of everything in this world, but we all don't want that and we certainly don't want just a single OS in the PC space either.

Google just updates through the versions of Android, not in the same exact way MS does for Windows since we've only had 9 versions of those and way more different tiny versions of Android. 

This.

Also, I'd like an option to make "Games" my default home page so I don't have to see "Apps", "Music", "Film and TV" when visiting the store as well as an option to sort out all the phone games.

In short:

That could be the only chance for PC only gamers to play Red Dead Redemption.

It's a shame it's Win10 and Windows Store only.