“All of this work is broadly applicable to the PC platform, and it’s going to continue to expand over time. Supporting multiple platforms, multiple chipsets, controllers for different machines that are out there and even ones that aren’t out yet.”

[…] Valve’s goal with the OS is to have it compatible with traditional PCs, laptops, portable consoles and any other formats.

  • @kitnaht
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    lol – You know… I never thought of it like that. All of the people they tried to crush never really went away.

    • Firefox (Netscape Navigator)
    • Linux (Literally everywhere now)
    • Apple (they literally rescued apple!)
    • Sony
    • Google (Search)
    • Slack (Teams)
    • Oracle (Databases)
    • Salesforce

    …for each attempt Microsoft has made at crushing someone they deemed a competitor – they sure are bad at it.

    However, others weren’t so lucky:

    • Lotus
    • Novell
    • Palm
    • Nokia (bought them and made them a zombie of their former selves)
    • Blackberry (though, this was more Android than MS)
    • Various web-mail competitors with Hotmail
    • IBM (OS/2 vs Windows)

    Though, I’m not so sure that last list was all Microsoft. More of a Microsoft + Market Pressures type of death.

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      The Nokia Windows Phones were so good. I LOVED the polycarbonate bodies that could be smushed back if you dented it.

      • Nailbar
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        I had the Nokia Linux phone with the same body. It was one of my favorite phones.