CE-Oh no he didn’t!: Valve’s Gabe Newell says ‘Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone’
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Always-outspoken Gabe Newell, the big cheese at Valve, made quite a few interesting statements at this year’s Casual Connect conference, including the quote above. Gabe believes Microsoft’s impending update will drive manufacturers away from the OS and he reiterated Valve’s plan to make the entire Steam catalog available on Linux as a “hedging strategy.” During the onstage discussion, he also weighed in on the longevity of touch input, which he estimates at a decade, the possibility of tongue control and the future of wearable computers. Other classic quotes include “the next version of Photoshop should look like a free-to-play game,” which Adobe apparently didn’t quite understand — and frankly, neither do we.
CE-Oh no he didn’t!: Valve’s Gabe Newell says ‘Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone’ originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 26 Jul 2012 08:13:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
