Steam will run worse on computers running Windows 10.
The founder of the Studio Epic Games and Creator of the Unreal Engine 4 decided to tell the world about the intentions of Microsoft. According to him, the company intends over time to displace Steam using Windows update 10.
In an interview with Edge Tim Sweeney (Tim Sweeney) stated that the Steam network will inevitably run worse on computers running Windows 10. According to him, so, Microsoft are going to raise the interest of users to the Windows store.
“Right now there are two programmable interface to Windows called Win32 and the UWP. Each developer must choose only one interface out of two before you start creating your application. Every Steam application and any PC game released over the last few decades — works on Win32. Thanks to this interface we have not only a dynamic market of software, but also malware, ” said Sweeney.
“That’s what came up UWP-based interface that is essentially an antidote against malicious applications. In this case, everything works in the sandbox, it operates in a much more closed system. The risk here is this: if Microsoft can convince every developer to use UWP, it will displace traditional Win32 applications. If Microsoft succeeds in this endeavor, it will force all developers to release their games and apps to the Windows Store”.
“Once we reach this point, the PC will become a closed platform. Microsoft will soon push a certain lever and destroy your gaming library on Steam is already trying to do this with the help of very complicated maneuvers. Old apps become less and less comfortable. Eventually the Windows Store will be the only source of new applications and games”.
“In the next 5 years for Microsoft to patch Windows 10 so that Steam will look worse and worse until eventually no longer functional. Microsoft will never be able to break Steam completely, but it will consistently degrade the performance of a network on computers under uravneniem your operating system. In the end, within 5 years Steam will work on Windows 10 with so many errors that the Windows Store will be the perfect alternative.”
“What I say is the way of doing business Microsoft. So the company won its competitors in all other areas. Now she got in the way of Steam. The plan about which I speak, only began to manifest itself. This is only the beginning. Maybe now Microsoft has enough strength to succeed in this field, but she’s already trying,” concluded Tim Sweeney.
Among Steam users, there are more than 42% of owners of Windows 10, and this figure continues to grow from month to month. With the emergence of a growing number of games, the system requirements, which will be the new OS of Microsoft, Windows 10 will move the vast majority of gamers. And if Sweeney is right, Windows Sotre can really become an alternative to Steam, despite the fact that the Microsoft store is currently one of the most unpopular among gamers platforms digital distribution applications.
