a year ago on Mastodon when EA started locking out games like Apex Legends, BF1, V, 2042, etc from Linux I said “I bet you Microsoft is about to launch a handheld and since they have a deal with EA and Gamepass they want EA Exclusivity on their handheld and to lockout Steamdeck/Valve” sure enough a few months later Microsoft announces their Xbox handheld with Asus.
Defaced@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Anyone with half a brain could see this coming from a mile away. My conspiracy brain almost thinks this is some concerted and calculated effort by Microsoft to artificially lock games to Windows through anti cheat. It’s disgusting, isn’t needed, and just plain isn’t effective. They can spew all the metrics out of their ass, we all know that it’s just not effective.
rozodru@lemmy.world 1 week ago
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
And what’s the one thing they are getting fucking torched over even by Xbox loyalists? The price (Steam Deck has a cheaper SKU)
wizzim@infosec.pub 1 week ago
I am not sure about this conspiracy theory of yours: Microsoft does want third party applications sitting in the kernel anymore.
theverge.com/…/microsoft-windows-kernel-antivirus…
Natanael@infosec.pub 1 week ago
Not entirely;
github.com/microsoft/ebpf-for-windows
Microsoft just want that 3rd party code to interact in a more predictable way with the kernel