Microsoft forks Unreal Engine 4 and ports it to Universal Windows Platform (opens in new tab)

>but it is also the case that their getting-away-with-it power is at an all time low.

Actually, most, if not all of the provisions, of the DOJ settlement have expired. This is why they can ship an AV with their OS and tell OEM's to cut it out with the crapware and offer special installers to remove this stuff.

I think they're just too weak to be the MS of the 90s. They just have to play ball to be competitive like everyone else. This is a good thing. Yet somehow the hysterical anti-MS attitudes are still here. Look at this thread. Its 90% conspiracy theories and axe grinding from things a decade out.

You'll stay with the tech you locked yourself in. I work in one of several buildings and macs there are just to let others know that you are a manager and you can get away with anything you want. Beside that everything is a MS pc and will stay that way until the business die.

Getting everyone into the system is infinitively expensive, so is getting everyone out of it.

Their 'getting-away-with-it' power hit an all-time low 10 to 15 years ago. They have drastically more room to abuse their position now than they did back when they were universally feared and relentlessly pursued by the US Government. Smart people actually thought Bill Gates was going to seize control of the Internet and put up toll roads, and that Microsoft would own all commerce. The scare-mongering and media insanity was non-stop for years in that regard. If I started listing sensational scare quotes about Microsoft from that time by other industry leaders, journalists, media publications, government leaders and other billionaires, we'd be here all day.

By comparison to what Microsoft went through in the late 1990s, today is a cakewalk, they have drastically more freedom and less of a spotlight on their behavior. Nobody really cares about Windows now, nobody fears Microsoft like they did in 1998, nobody thinks Bill Gates is Satan incarnate, nobody is calling for Microsoft to be broken into pieces.

> (GWX aside,)

Really, that lawsuit not enough to convince you it's a big deal? They're "upgrading" users without their consent/knowledge using ui dark patterns.

At least be honest if you work for Microsoft.

It would be EEE if they, for example, ported DirectX to Linux. But here they're just ported other product to run on their "a-la Android for desktop" system. Possibly evil but not exactly EEE.

Every single Microsoft-related news item does not require mention of a 20-year-old business strategy from before the Internet era.

the bottomline is that epic wants to make money out of the engine so unless they are willing to lose marketshare to other engines (e.g. Unity) they will eventually have to accept that their engine will be used for UWP apps.

Why would a multi-platform game engine mainline changes that are only applicable to Windows 10 devices?

As mentioned in the post, you need to register for the repository. Steps are below:

"If you see a 404 page, you need to complete the enrollment process: Create a GitHub account.

Sign up for the Epic program

Follow the instructions to associate your Epic Program account with your GitHub account.

Join the Epic GitHub Org (from the email invitation you receive after Step 3)"

If you read the linked post, it explains how you need to connect GitHub to your Epic Games account to see the repo if you see the 404 error. (I didn't know this sort of thing was a GitHub feature, so it was interesting to me. I initially made the same mistake.)

That's what it looks like when a repository is made private and you don't have access to it. UE4's code is only available to licensees; I'm sure it was never supposed to be publicly viewable.

Nope. Me too.

Definitely cool.

Microsoft wants more (good) apps on W10's store, so they port as much tool as possible to ease W10 apps development. Seems pretty straightforward?

How is that a dick move? It's open sourced development that gives you better support if you plan to develop for their platform. They did the same for Unity with their VS/VSCode integrations etc. There was nothing negative about that, as far as I'm concerned.

Equally cool (and with Ubuntu, react-native is really becoming a useful 'standard' for cross platform GUI work)