22nd June 2010, 7:58 AM
MS doesn't have to hold the hardware. To put that logo on the box requires paying certain fees. Further, they certainly would need to offer revenue for MS's Live servers to support "Games For Windows Live" and be sold as direct downloads on their store.
And, in spite of all your protesting, MS themselves recognize they've sold their own platform short. Besides all your reasoning, you fail to explain why, if MS has decided the PC market is "dead", they spend SO much money and time developing new versions of DirectX.
And, in spite of all your protesting, MS themselves recognize they've sold their own platform short. Besides all your reasoning, you fail to explain why, if MS has decided the PC market is "dead", they spend SO much money and time developing new versions of DirectX.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)