[GTALUG] Surveillance Capitalism [was another thread]

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Apr 04, 2021 at 10:33:57PM -0400, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote:
> Microsoft does extremely well with its XBox product line, don't forget.
> Not merely do they have a line of the premiere gaming hardware, they are
> also considered a AAA game development shop. They've come a long way
> from MS Olympic Decathlon on the TRS-80.

To some extent it appears Microsoft's main goal is to get more people
subscribed to game pass.  As long as they can get monthly subscriptions to
their game supply, they don't really care if you play on a PC, the xbox,
or something else.  If something else, it would cost them even less if
they weren't responsible for the development costs of that system.

Microsoft is even moving towards making Linux able to be a hyper-v host,
so they don't need to keep using windows for that, with the obvious
overhead that bears.

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Len Sorensen