Tim Sweeney thinks Win32 apps are better for consumers than Microsoft’s UWP
Last week, Epic Games co-founder, Tim Sweeney, wrote an opinion piece for The Guardian about his personal concerns for Windows 10’s (and Windows 8’s) app distribution method of delivering apps via Microsoft’s Windows Store. In it, he accused Microsoft of trying to “monopolize games development on PC” and expressed his want for distributing apps via unofficial sources.
If their fallacy gets enough press, will Microsoft bend? Or are they "better than" everyone? Clearly they're in it for the long haul. Their parents bought them a LOT of chips and they can afford to lose bets at the gaming tables for a long, long time before they ultimately get thrown out in the parking lot.
Someone there probably thinks, "gee, it's lonely at the top".
One has to ask: The top of what?
-Noel
Author of the "How to Configure the 'To Work' Options" series of Windows books. Not feeling enough love to do one for Windows 10.
I read somewhere that this Sweeney guy cut back on the strength of his statements after having been contacted by Microsoft people who were "professional and courteous".
I hate it when good people cave under pressure or get paid off or whatever.
-Noel
Author of the "How to Configure the 'To Work' Options" series of Windows books. Not feeling enough love to do one for Windows 10.
Good for them. Glad to see them making a good, rational decision. There's no reason to involve Insiders with bugs that they are already fully aware off. Build 14337 probably wouldn't have offered much else anyway giving the close timing to build 14332.
Microsoft, is Windows 10 the best you could do? Really? After promising to listen to our feedback, what a letdown!
That kind of thing only worries me that they're fooling with stuff they no longer have the talent to get right.
Given the long history of Windows, there must be parts of it under the covers that they can't reproduce. I know how many times I saw that happen technically to folks in my career (though to be fair, things like backup and rational code management policies completely prevent such occurrences, and we've actually known how to do that since deep into the last century).
But even if they have all the source code on hand and actively build it into the tens of gigabytes that is a Windows installation, we know how bad Windows code has been. It's not hard to imagine that there are parts that even with source code no one can decipher.
-Noel
Author of the "How to Configure the 'To Work' Options" series of Windows books. Not feeling enough love to do one for Windows 10.
<Rick> Good video. It's almost hard to believe that at one time Windows 98 was the resource hog, but even then, it still ran circles around what Windows 10 can do on today's modern hardware and look a heck of alot better doing it.
May 25, 2021 22:55:12 GMT -6
<Rick> As stated elsewhere, So much for the launch of Windows 11, "The Great Crash." Myself, I had a hard time getting into the site listed above, when I did get in, the video was partly done and then it crashed. There has been many other reports of crashing.
Jun 24, 2021 9:52:33 GMT -6
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<Rick> I see Microsoft has been very quick to pull down reports of site crashing regarding the Launch of Windows 11 on the Microsoft Insiders forum.
Jun 24, 2021 9:57:31 GMT -6
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<Rick> The rebroadcast is working okay.
Jun 24, 2021 11:00:25 GMT -6
<Rick> With reports of people being able to install the dev-edition of Windows 11 on machines not meeting spec, I thought I would give it a what-the-heck try. Lucky me, I'm caught in the downloading, doesn't meet spec, clearing, re-downloading loop on my machine!
Jul 2, 2021 7:08:46 GMT -6
<Rick> I've recently purchased a license for ArcaOS from www.arcanoae.com/ to play with. First impressions, it's still OS/2, but it now has a Linux twist to it.
Jul 2, 2021 7:32:53 GMT -6
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<dozrguy> laptop shit out and am stuck buying a new one. os win11 as fucked as win10 was?
Oct 2, 2021 12:56:10 GMT -6
<Rick> Let's see ..., my impression of Windows 11 is that it is a spruced up version of Windows 10 requiring a 64-bit processor plus a piece of security hardware that is less than 4 years old in order for it to run.
Oct 4, 2021 18:25:49 GMT -6
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<Rick> On the plus side, Microsoft is supposed to be supporting Windows 10 for some time to come for those of us still using systems with I7 or older processors.
Oct 4, 2021 18:44:35 GMT -6
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<dozrguy> i tried installing win10 om the 'shitout' pc this morning usung media creation. EPIC FAIL! went into an endless bootloop. win7 reinstalled just fine
Oct 21, 2021 11:23:38 GMT -6
<dozrguy> STILL so much bullshit and so little time for the kiddie ideas from the hill. My new laptop (MSI GE 11-UH461) would be an awesome "10" machine but because of Winblows I can only give it a "2"......wasted $3500
Oct 27, 2021 9:36:47 GMT -6
<Rick> Hello. Just checking in.
Mar 17, 2022 10:46:54 GMT -6
<isidroco> Each new w10 update adds >100000 useless files to \Windows\Servicing\LCU\Package_for_RollupFix... folders. Even in a SSD takes time to delete that stuff. In each version they manage to worsen stuff.
Mar 27, 2022 16:14:51 GMT -6
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<dozerguy> still traffic here?
Oct 9, 2022 17:32:44 GMT -6
<Rick> No, there does not seem to be very much traffic these days. I still check in from time to time.
Oct 9, 2022 20:08:58 GMT -6