If Microsoft want their operating system to stay alive without making monthly subscription or bloated adware all over the screen from hazardous company, they got to open more, and let's say it: make windows open source. They could then provide professional support expertise and sell this service for those in need.

Let's get down to it, they don't have much more options.

I'm almost certain MS plans was to make win 12 a montly subscription until some rumors spread about it. They'll probably try to do it with win 13, but it won't go as planned if they continue to treat customers the way they do.

On the other hand it's all good for Linux, they are making the "desktop year of linux" happening way faster than expected with this actual trend ;)

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I quit EA games since origin came out! They have some good title, but their policy is probably one of the most terrible from the market.

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So cool, did not knew there was an open source implementation of heroes 3. Gotta try it asap!

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Exactly what I was expecting from Microsoft. Can't believe the EU validate deal of Blizzard Activision, when there were supposed conditions to allow the sale, and MS as usual never respect their conditions neither the EU Law. I tried many time to contact European commission by mail, to warm them about what will happen, and I never ever received a single mail of answer... Damn traitors...

This is hearbreaking as these were good dev studio for most of them...

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Such a good news, and a bit more than a drop of water in the ocean this time. Maybe we can dream about getting our games back.

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The very beginning of their answer shows they already are biased, and probably people from the industry have explained them how thing should work according to their sole interest dismissing any purchaser's claim. I.e: complicated to maintain game that are not maintained, and then throw money and publishing a "patch" that solely stop old OS/platform to access the game and not fixing anything.

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Agreed, they should open source at least the over 20-yo Windows XP

Hehe XP still recent enough to the point that an open sourced version, would take like two weeks before it could run anymodern or old software & game faster than any modern windows.

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Sound like a pack full of gems! :smile:

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Almost 12% of linux desktop in Norway oO

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The page seems to load faster where I live. Maybe placebo effect, but it used to have some delay before displaying.
Congrats for the migration, and thanks as always for all the quality content you keep providing!

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