Microsoft is back to its monopoly schenaningans, I cant believe that only one person mentioned this.
The real problem with Windows8 is that they FORCE you to buy digital content directly through their marketplace, so Steam (and any other NON WIN8 CERTIFIED CONTENT) can suck it...
WHAT THE FUCK??? How the fuck can this be legal? Although to be fair Apple is knee deep in this shit as well, but at least they have a closed system.
Microsoft trying to emulate Apple = BIG FUCKING FAIL.
I saw the writing on the wall when MS decided to make DirectX 10 exclusive to their 'shiny' new OS. People were laughing at me then for even suggesting that Microsoft is doing this to make it more like a console/Mac evnironment where everything is controlled by Microsoft.
One big problem remains for Valve (and others who want to switch to the last truly 'open' IBM compatible OS, Linux):
Microsoft basically made publishers and developers DEPENDANT on its DirectX API, apart from Valve and iD no one even bothes to implement OpenGL which is basically REQUIRED if you want to do games on Linux or any other non-windows environment.
I have a nifty blue line!