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Sure, but Valve is terrified of the Microsoft store for a subtly, but importantly, different reason than why Microsoft should be terrified of Steam OS.
Microsoft should be terrified that Steam OS will destroy their monopoly by making it so users no longer have to use their product.
Valve is terrified that Microsoft will destroy their monopoly by making it so users no longer can use their product.
So in the end, consumers win?
In this case, between Valve winning and Microsoft winning, a Valve win is good for consumers.
Valve winning is less awful for consumers.
Valve is still a multi billion dollar company, who had to be forced into compliance with lawsuit and regulation to get even the most basic shit like refunds for bad/broken/scam games.
Valve does have a better history
Those are two orthogonal things, but they do both point towards Valve being the better choice between the two. But if there were a Valve vs. Microsoft duality where the choice that's better for anyone that's not the two of them is to side with Microsoft, I'd be disappointed with Valve, but I'd choose the Microsoft route.
I don't think that's likely, as Valve have repeatedly made choices that are better for the consumer even when they're not better for Valve, but I'm not ruling out the possibility.
As long as SteamOS doesn't fail, yes. If SteamOS draws enough gamers for there to be a healthy amount on Windows and SteamOS there will be competition between the two OS-s, which will benefit everyone. If SteamOS does draw away the supermajority of gamers then we still benefit because the open source nature of Linux makes it much harder for Valve to have total control like Microsoft has.
We shall see, there has been a rise recently
People use steam because it's better than alternatives, if it dies consumers will lose
Oh I was thinking competition on the market. But yes, Valve is great
Microshit already lost, most windows users just don't know it yet. Sure microshit will get another 25 years as generations shift.... Similar to opinions on israel but the trend is set