This would be better for gamers and simpler, because they wouldn't need to wonder if a game will run. Note that Valve could have offered a version of this that includes Windows (Windows Central did on an article on exactly this) at a premium to cover the cost of the Windows license, which would then run ALL games, not just those compatible with WINE. I'm not claiming Valve has no right to do this, just that it's a very Google and anti-MS thing to do. As a Microsoft fan, I think it's important that any balanced coverage point this out. While this probably is legal, it's still a knife in Microsoft's back, who has bent over backwards recently to put its own first-party games on Steam and help and praise Valve. In stark contrast, Microsoft has never said that Windows is open source.Ģ. That is also what MS is now leveraging through Amazon. That's why Amazon built its own Kindle Fire AOSP fork, taking advantage of the very reason Google structured Android that way. They released AOSP (Android Open Source Project) specifically to prove that anyone can do anything with Android without being tied to or dependent on Google in any way. Google made a point of ensuring that there is an open source version of Android. Some might argue that MS just announced that it will support Android applications on Windows 11, so it would be hypocritical of MS or MS fans to complain about this. They are NOT offering generic gaming hardware like a barebones PC that can run anything. Valve is fighting against GamePass, and offering hardware to help "free" users from Microsoft and instead tie them into Steam (like Apple does with iOS on its iPhone through the App Store, but without doing the real work of creating their own OS as Apple has done). In one comment, a fellow user pointed out that this will just be another GamePass device, but I don't see any evidence that's true.
While MS is not entirely dependent on Windows users for its revenue these days, Windows licenses to OEMs and Windows as a system to attract users into its ecosystem are still vital portions of MS revenue. This is riding on the investments that Microsoft has made to build an OS and software development tools to help developers write software for its systems. I think we would all rightly cry foul (again, even if it's technically legal). Consider if Dell, Lenovo, or HP launched a system that they promoted as running Windows software, but without Windows. I suspect the Steam Deck is a legal offering (possible that selling a WINE-based system for profit violates MS copyrights on its API's, but probably not - I think the courts have generally held that's permissible as long as it's not using MS code, which it's probably not), but as an MS fan site, I would expect more inclusion in the articles about Steam Deck on the strategic harm this does to Microsoft.
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