EVE General Discussion

As we speak, the industry is on fire. Windows 8 RMT was released and it's plain horrible. At the same time Valve, the company making Steam and CS, has shown how OpenGL & Ubuntu pwns D3 & Windows.

Yes, Valve has strategy to bring Steam to Linux and top of that, port all their games to linux. That's over 2500 different products!

Reason behind this is that Valve and other companies don't believe in Windows 8. Microsoft is blinded by their belief that they are unbeatable and always right. They are doing what Nokia did, and that is not listening their partners or customers. Or even dealers.

Now, next six months are really interesting. It might lead into destruction of two IT dinosaurs, Microsoft and Nokia. Both being huge, market leaders, but not being able to re-focus on new market.

My question is for CCP that are you planning on taking any actions on possible Windows 8 failure?

There are large PC dealer companies that actually are considering to skip Windows 8 totally. There are numerous PC dealers that are willing to put Ubuntu on their PC's once Valve gets steam and few major games ported on it.

Games are only reason why Windows is so used.

In 2012 there is absolutely zero reasons to have Windows in your corporate PC's since there is multiple, as capable office solutions, as Microsoft Office is.

Red Hat and Canonical are going for the top on high gear. Their products are much more cheaper than Microsofts products are. Making software on linux is much more easily, in legal mind, than making for Windows.

By making clients on Red Hat and Debian branches of Linux distributions, you would cover up most of linux users out there.

Oh and the fun part is that Intel, AMD and Nvidia don't give **** about Windows, they just want their products get sold. If WIndows in falling dinosaur and linux the rising star, of course they will give their support on Valve, Canonical and Red Hat.

Gaming industry is already strongly focusing on open gl and mobile operating systems such as iOS and android. It would be logical them to keep on open gl and screw Direct X with linux.

Finnish people still don't believe that Nokia is dead, Microsoft doesn't even get to realise what did hit them.

Back in days CCP had linux clients, but it wasn't their time yet. But now it's real.

Change is here!

Also

No company would mass produce LINUX based machines as they would not sell

It would be financial stupidity.

You've heard a rumour on the internet and are jumping at CCP. I do have a Linux server for work. But to use it for general things IMO is plain stupid and makes your life difficult for no reason other than to try and feel smart.

I see nothing wrong with W8 personally, perhaps you do, but we use it every day, it is not the fault of the company that people are to stupid to keep up with technology

"Yess. THIS is the year that linux takes over the market. Mark my words." - Every stupid idiot nerd since at least 1995.

Every other Windows release is ****. 8 will be the next Vista, which was the next ME.

No one cares about Linux.

Hey guys, 2 multibillion dollar giant companies are just going to up and vanish overnight, you heard it here first, this prophet of industry couldn't possibly be wrong.

Microsoft is in huge trouble. Today it was leaked that their engineers must not call their GUI Metro anymore. They are screwed, they need to figure out new name for it or ditch it.

When Windows 7 came, Aero was Aero and still is Aero. It was not a codename for anything. Metro is the same thing, except they finished their OS and noticed that they had made a massive mistake.

Windows 8 is the most epic flop out there.

In 2005 windows had market share of around 85 percent. It's falling.

Also there is always chance for Google throwing out PC version of Android.

Reason why Windows has been big hit in corporate world is that you can easily teach your employees to use Windows office solutions since most likely they have Windows PC in their home. So gaming is really big deal even for corporate scale contracts.

Once gaming is real in linux world, there is absolutely any reason for anyone to install windows.

Companies who make hardware for PC's don't care about he OS itself. If the OS is hot, they will make hardware for it, if they want to survive.

Nokia.

Was worth hunders of billions.

Now? less than 6 billion euros..

http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/

Read the blog.

I may remind you that Valve is the creator of Half Life and CS.

Two most epic 'box office hit's in gaming industry.