“Likely”, man I am pretty sure Gaben openly talked about this, they haven’t liked where windows was headed for a long time
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pivot_root@lemmy.world 21 hours agoIn reality, it’s likely a self-preservation move. Microsoft made what appeared to be a monopolistic move to control the entire Windows ecosystem when they added their own app store and the locked down S edition of Windows. If Valve hadn’t invest in Linux and Microsoft continued with that path, they would have been screwed.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
henfredemars@infosec.pub 13 hours ago
I’m not sure that Microsoft ever did halt going down that path. My wife recently bought a PC that came locked down by default and required some fiddling to allow running unsigned apps. This was Windows 10, not sure about 11.
I think it could be more that broad compatibility with everything is their main selling point, and by doing so they were undermining their own ecosystem.
However, this is mere speculation on my part.