SatanicBagels Posted July 29, 2012 Report Share Posted July 29, 2012 Original Article Over at Digg: http://digg.com/news...in_the_pc_space Something about Windows 8 has displeased the current managing director of Valve. Despite having a faster kernel yet, Gabe Newell dismissed the soon to be released new Windows operating system as "a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space." Such harsh word from a video game development genius whose prominence on the PC market is unprecedented must mean something. This is a man who left Microsoft in 1996 to found the video game company Valve through the Half Life series. Through his leadership Valve has produced amazing games such as the whole of the Half Life series, Portal, Counter Strike, Team Fortress, the left 4 dead series, and leading a software download crusade in the form of Source. Not a single one of these games has been anything less than worldwide hits. This man knows a little about software development. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZΞRΘ Posted July 29, 2012 Report Share Posted July 29, 2012 Everything I have seen on windows 8 has made me a sad PC gamer I put my money on the linex and mac. Hopefully Microsoft will bounce back and fix this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Biggles Posted July 29, 2012 Report Share Posted July 29, 2012 Remember, windows 8 is still in beta, so, its fine, they will listen and recover Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperIntendant Posted July 30, 2012 Report Share Posted July 30, 2012 Original Article Over at Digg: http://digg.com/news...in_the_pc_space Something about Windows 8 has displeased the current managing director of Valve. Despite having a faster kernel yet, Gabe Newell dismissed the soon to be released new Windows operating system as "a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space." Such harsh word from a video game development genius whose prominence on the PC market is unprecedented must mean something. This is a man who left Microsoft in 1996 to found the video game company Valve through the Half Life series. Through his leadership Valve has produced amazing games such as the whole of the Half Life series, Portal, Counter Strike, Team Fortress, the left 4 dead series, and leading a software download crusade in the form of Source. Not a single one of these games has been anything less than worldwide hits. This man knows a little about software development. What I was getting from this is that he is worried about Microsoft starting to neglect the gaming market, at least the hardcore one, in favor of making a transition over to tablets. Rock, Paper, Shotgun! put out an article about this in which they pointed out that Microsoft used the interface from the Windows phones/tablets in the PC even though it is clearly made for a touch screen and not a mouse and keyboard, this might be a sign that Microsoft is allowing the PC to take the back seat to the tablet because they feel that is where the money is. Gabe Newell also said that he thought that the future was in Linux which I completely agree with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baby Boo Posted July 30, 2012 Report Share Posted July 30, 2012 You see, this is precisely why I stuck to windows seven. I refuse to get windows 8 until it is tweaked and perfected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Director Posted July 30, 2012 Report Share Posted July 30, 2012 I would say that you need to include the reason WHY he said that, but he didn't say himself lol Also, this is the third time today I've read this story. Kind of ironic that it's about Gabe Newell. lmao Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skummgummigubbe Posted July 30, 2012 Report Share Posted July 30, 2012 i miss my Windows Xp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperIntendant Posted July 30, 2012 Report Share Posted July 30, 2012 i miss my Windows Xp XP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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