Is Microsoft building a gaming monopoly?

Steam's idea of keeping linux as a lifeboat seem much smarter now.

It's also fairly remarkable what a relatively cheap hedge it's been. Turns out re-implementing DirectX is not a completely wild task.

*Buying a gaming monopoly. Microsoft is buying a gaming a monopoly.

Forget gaming, their end goal is a metaverse monopoly.

Gotta have something to drag people onto closed PCs