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That's why microsoft only hires people who fail any ethics test you can imagine, and who pass any asshole test that you can give them.

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I was going to push back on this, but on second thought I realized you are correct. Microsoft has a reputation, to put it mildly. A reputation that is well known to every software engineer on the planet, and indeed to many laymen.

Everyone who even applies there knows exactly what they are getting into. The application itself is an "ethics test", so to speak.

Xbox team has some good eggs at least. They didn’t need to make certain x360 titles forwards compatible, you can’t even get the disks new anymore, but they did it anyway.

Did you hear about xbox potentially doing away with physical media?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2023/09/20/ten-years-...

https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/xbox-one-series-x-games-mi...

Certain, as in those that are likely to sell, not all. These days the hardware is basically commodity and the time of innovating on CPU arch and hardware is over (remember the PS3 Cell CPU and the PS2 Emotion Engine?). You're getting commodity PCs in a unique form-factor and walled-garden support.

MS might be making a move to break the garden with GamePass, but only because they want people in GamePass's walled garden so they start renting games from MS instead of buying them from competitors. For over a decade they have failed to compete with Sony and Nintendo on quality first-party gaming.

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