Report: Microsoft to Focus on Gaming with Windows 8

by Brian Leahy, Dec 23, 2010 3:00pm PST

Related Topics – Microsoft, PC, Games for Windows

According to a report by TechRadar, Microsoft could be eying gaming as a big focus for the forthcoming Windows 8. TechRadar claims that "the software giant [is] ready to put its weight behind the platform once more."

Microsoft has also hired Rahul Sood, who came over from Hewlett-Packard and Voodoo PC and is also the guy that blogged that Microsoft scrapped plans for PC and Xbox 360 cross-platform multiplayer because "the console players got destroyed every time" sparking Internet arguments about controllers versus mouse & keyboard.

Last month, Microsoft launched a redesigned Games for Windows Marketplace, which sells digital games and downloadable content. Microsoft's biggest competition will obviously be Valve's Steam platform, which is currently the undisputed king of PC gaming.

Microsoft has quite a large mountain to climb, especially after Games for Windows LIVE.

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Considering how much MS has done for gaming with DirectX in its entirety, I think MS doesn't get enough credit for actually trying to do something. Yeah, there's a side gamers don't like, but MS's one of the few company's to put real money into marketing the PC as a gaming platform. DirectX really brought unity to what was the wild west of each card mfr having their own standard. We've come a L O N G ways from individual drivers and messing with autoexec.bat and config.sys files because of MS.

MS's preaching they'll focus on gaming for Win8. Fine. I'll simply keep my own expectations in check until I see real proof. No need to be a pre-hater.

Dec 23, 2010 7:43pm PST

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Considering how much MS has done for gaming with DirectX in its entirety, I think MS doesn't get enough c... : daggot
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  Sure, MS did a lot to really bring PC gaming together. Then they did a lot to tear it all down. It's a ... : HisDivineOrder
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  the *only* reason MS are still working on direct x is because it's gonna be on the next x box in 2 years.... : kiddygrinder
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    LOL, statements like this really prove that most of the people here DKWTF. : Fred Garvin
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      most of these guys never experienced the DOS gaming days, so they wouldn't understand how DirectX actuall... : oneandone11
      
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      directX came about because MS were scared of an open source, open platform SDK openGL taking over the mar... : moshman
      
      Where on earth did you pull that crackpot theory from? Direct3D wasn't even part of the initial DirectX r... : PlayfulPuppy
      
      No, DirectX was created to provide a single API for all hardware on windows. Prior to Direct X, all soun... : oneandone11
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    you really don't know wtf you are talking about do you
    
    Dec 27, 2010 1:08am PST
    
    you really don't know wtf you are talking about do you : moshman
- They get credit for DirectX in the same way I give George Lucas credit for the original Star Wars trilogy... : MeestaNob
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  The only thing DX gave us is a dependency for one operating system. I sure would have prefered Opengl ove... : d3vilsadvocate
  - Well, not exactly. DirectX is more than graphics API. Direct3D is the OpenGL alternative, not the whole D... : anal justice
- Any good MS has done for PC gaming was PRIOR to their entry into the console market. Since that time, th... : JackAxe
- Ed fries was the last person at MS who actually gave a shit about the PC as a game platform. Once he left... : cell9song

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