Microsoft Pledges to Use ARM Server Chips, Threatening Intel's Dominance

Re:Microsoft Pledges to Use ARM Server Chips, Threatening In... by saghm on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @10:58PM (#13826848)

Right, but Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo also make their entire systems (both hardware and software), not to mention that they don't provide games for other platforms, so it's obviously going to be a little different for SteamOS, which is essentially a second-tier platform from Valve and is running on arbitrary hardware.

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Re:Microsoft Pledges to Use ARM Server Chips, Threatening In... by pjmlp on Thursday March 09, 2017 @12:55AM (#13827307)

SteamOS was supposed to be Valve's distribution.

Windows also runs on arbitrary hardware

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Re:Microsoft Pledges to Use ARM Server Chips, Threatening In... by saghm on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @04:03PM (#13870973)

I think it's a little disingenuous to compare Windows to SteamOS like this. Microsoft has quite a bit of pull with hardware manufacturers; there's a strong incentive for PC companies not to put out hardware that doesn't work with Windows (and I'd imagine extensive tests are done before releasing any such hardware to ensure that everything works with Windows, presumably with some degree of communication and cooperation with Microsoft). On the other hand, there's virtually no incentive for a PC maker to make sure that their hardware doesn't break things for SteamOS.

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