{"id":41927,"date":"2012-07-26T12:37:26","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T10:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=41927"},"modified":"2012-07-26T12:59:01","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T10:59:01","slug":"windows-8-is-a-catastrophe-says-gabe-newell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/41927-windows-8-is-a-catastrophe-says-gabe-newell","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8 is a “catastrophe”, says Gabe Newell"},"content":{"rendered":"

He might have worked at Microsoft for thirteen years, but Valve boss Gabe Newell isn’t a big fan of the company’s new Windows OS at all, calling it a “catastrophe” in a recent interview.<\/p>\n

On the subject of Valve’s recent interest in Linux, Newell told All Things D that \u201cThe big problem that is holding back Linux is games. People don\u2019t realise how critical games are in driving consumer purchasing behavior.”<\/p>\n

The big idea then is to put Steam on Linux so if Windows 8 bombs, the company has other options.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to make it as easy as possible for the 2,500 games on Steam to run on Linux as well. It\u2019s a hedging\u00a0strategy,” he explained. “I think Windows 8 is a\u00a0catastrophe\u00a0for everyone in the PC space. I think we\u2019ll lose some of the top-tier PC\/OEMs, who will exit the market. I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people. If that\u2019s true, then it will be good to have alternatives to hedge against that eventuality.”<\/p>\n

Windows 8 launches in October. Steam for Linux launches whenever it’s ready. Who will triumph?<\/em> Stay tuned.<\/p>\n

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Gabe Newell<\/p><\/div>\n

Source: All Things D<\/a><\/h5>\n

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Valve moving into Linux to “to hedge against that eventuality”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":41935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[21,2065,5724,5400,91,85,697,5088],"class_list":["post-41927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-headline","tag-linux","tag-linux-games","tag-linux-gaming","tag-microsoft","tag-steam","tag-valve","tag-windows-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41934,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41927\/revisions\/41934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}