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I didn't think this was a conspiracy theory, I thought it was obvious!

Maybe not now but in future if 3D gaming is equally great on all platforms, who needs windows?

In fact I thought this was just part of the broader strategy of Internet Explorer. Read Bill Gates' 1995 Internet Tidal Wave letter. He's worried the Internet will become the new platform where people use apps and make Windows irrelevant. What did they do? The first browser wars left IE6 stagnating - meaning you had to make any serious apps for desktop, and that meant mainly Windows. Even though they're losing share now, they still won: 5+ years of extra Windows license sales. That's a lot of money, and even arguably bought them enough time to survive Vista.

Microsoft are more forwards-looking than they are given credit for, I think. Gates foresaw what is happening now, which is apps are moving to the web and making the OS irrelevant, as far back as 1995 - and took successful steps to stop it. Lack of WebGL support is exactly the same routine for the same reasons.




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