Why is Tim Sweeney so fucking crazy?

Why is Tim Sweeney so fucking crazy?

who is this nigga?

founder of Epic games

Founder of Epic and lead programmer for Unreal Engine

Tim Sweeny from Epic Games? As in the same Epic Games who literally actually sold out to consoles in 7th gen, and shown nothing but scorn for PC for the entirety of the generation until they were bought by a Chinese company?

Fuck Epic Games, and fuck Unreal. I will never understand what was so special about Unreal Engine, let alone that godawful abomination that was 3.

tim's pretty smart, but everyone is always paranoid about microsoft, because they have a history of anti-competitive behavior
so when microsoft dangles a free version of windows that only runs apps from their app store they get paranoid

>Tim Sweeny from Epic Games?

is he like Nikki Blomsky from the movie Hairspray?

Literally nobody will use this though, it's pretty fucking stupid of microsoft but it won't affect anyone that cared to do more than browse facebook on ther computer.

>because they have a history of anti-competitive behavior
Actually it's because Google's early marketing was 100% into calling microsoft hitler for over a decade now. People accepted it as fact but it can really only get linked to google announceing their products and how "they weren't like them".
ironically, google is now exactly what they claimed microsoft would be if "we let them continu".

Windows Cloud is a limited OS specifically designed to take on Chrome OS which is gaining a lot of popularity on budget Notebooks in schools.

The actress who tweeted at everyone to try and get a job? Or just an overly chipper fat girl?

Is he trying to say that you'll have to go through the windows app store in order to install steam, thus prohibiting access to your games without ms's now gatekeeper status approval? If so why is there a price? Can store apps not be free? Or is it even worse and individual games can't be installed through steam without running through ms's store? That would be a good reason to scream, imo.

both

Are you 12? MS has a looooooooooong history of abusive and destructive business/tech practices long before google even existed.

That's contagiously cheery.

the win32 subsystem isn't included so you actually have to upgrade ($$$) your version of windows to run classic windows software at all
the concern is that the default price of a machine with cripple windows will lead to adoption of a version of windows that's a glorified app store interface

> it won't affect anyone that cared to do more than browse facebook on their computer.

So this only impacts women, basically?

Basically Windows Cloud has no actual effect on Windows 10. It's a completely separate OS designed for the same computers Chrome OS runs on. You can just pay to get it upgraded to full Windows 10 if you want.

Women don't use computers

het its Nikki Blonsky from the MOVIE Hairspray just wanted to say thanks for that I try my best & and wish you the same ;)

This, Epic didn't give a shit about PC for the entirety of 7th gen. They had to rerelease UT3 just to make it not as shitty amd stopped porting Gears of War to PC and said it was because PC players were filthy pirates. the only reason their focusing on PC now is because they're slaves to the Chinese so they have to pump out multiplayer-only games now. UT4 will also never leave pre-alpha.

Ah right, most games are 32bit. Couldn't they develop some shim for 32->64 bit, by... closed source, never mind. I guess the question is then how prevalent sweeny expects this to be. If MS pushes it as the default installation for laptops it could be a sizable percentage of the market.

No. Microsoft was nothing special for a company of their size. It only became bad when they did it, and now you are there, defending google honor while they rape your privacy worse than anything google ever accused them to do back in the days.

Why would someone buy a tablet OS focused on browser apps and then complain that they can't run games on it?

no no, has nothing to do with 32bit or 64bit. "win32" doesn't mean "windows 32bit", it's literally the name of the original windows subsystem for legacy desktop programs.

spotted the microserf

Right, right. I was sloppy with my choice of words. Actually, that makes me wonder. If they're dropping the entire win32 api what api are they relying on? win64, right? They're not pulling another RT are they?

Windows Cloud is RT 2.0, but it's still not meant for regular laptops and desktops anyway. The api would be UWA.

If that's the case, why not just use a linux distro or android or chromeOS? Why pay the added licensing fees to ms for a product line that breaks legacy and has squat all apps?

To be fair, we currently don't even know if Windows Cloud will actually cost any money at the moment.

>tfw in 20 years all PCs sold will come with a built in locked down OS that will only let you use software on their "stores" and if you want to write your own software or install Unapproved software you will have to pay 700 dollars for a Windows Enterprise license

Yeah microsoft is very nice and they don't have dozens of features in win 10 that literally can't be turned off even if you don't want them because lmao fuck users

LINUX


In 20 years wine will be perfectly usable even for gaming (it is for a large part even now), and who knows reactOS might even take off. There will be no reason to use windows if it's that locked down.

Maybe I'll switch then, if Windows just gets worse and worse and more restrictive and Apple like.

For now its sitll a joke to use linux for PC gaming though.

>hey it geg

Linux will be banned in 2031 as a "terrorist OS" that can bypass mandatory built in data collection by a special act of congress.

The year is 2028 and Microsoft has been elected the 46th President of the United States of America following Donald Trump's 3rd term.

It's a good thing corporations aren't people

>all PCs sold
What PART of the PC? When you buy a CPU? a harddrive? a case? Makes no sense...

If you buy just parts you will automatically be locked out from the normie OSes and have to pay 700 dollars for Windows Enterprise

Tell that to Mittens Romney and the US Supreme Court

>corporations aren't people
Yeah, maybe in the first world. In America they're legally people.

That's the joke you autistic fuck.

Except for in cases where it's not beneficial to be counted as a person, in which they're not.

Nah, Daddy Trump will grant full citizenship to all companies founded in America during his 3rd term.

>For now its sitll a joke to use linux for PC gaming though
Jesus Christ, this. Win10 looked so bad I tried Ubuntu for a few months but kept running into weird problems with shit I never even imagined.

Even motherfucking Visual Boy Advance wouldn't run properly and no amount of option toggling or switching to different forks like VBA-M would fix it. It wasn't just a simple unloaded driver issue because other games often ran fine (or had completely different unrelated problems), it was just VBA.

Shit like this happened all the time. Not to mention all the old Game Maker games I used to love that I couldn't play even in Wine, getting different errors for each game