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Comment Re:Not even MS thinks it's ready (Score 1) 287

they just need to drop support for Windows 10 in their next version of Office products.

Office will always work with Windows 10 (and Linux, and Mac OS) as long as they offer the E1 tier. All you need is a compatible browser, and while Microsoft would have you believe Office works best on Edge the truth is it works just fine on Chrome and Firefox.

Comment Re: "Third-party launchers" (Score 1) 44

When Valve launched Steam it offered smaller developers a place to showcase their titles to a larger audience while simultaneously providing anti-piracy DRM that smaller developers with few coding resources could not afford to develop themselves. There were many competitors at the time (2003) and several were quite popular. I believe the reason Steam won out, and this is entirely my opinion, was that their DRM was invisible. I was an early Steam adopter (I also used many of the popular competitors) and had no idea Steam had DRM. Almost every program with DRM I have interfaced with has had DRM that is in your face in some way. A lot of DRM systems must be connected to the mothership to work. If you have flaky internet or the mothership is unavailable...too bad!

EA got cocky and launched Origin and pulled most of their content from Steam. They had no idea how hard maintaining that system would be and just how much people actually like using Steam. Long story short they eventually modified Origin to link to Steam so they could list their titles on Steam again. The "If it aint broke, don't fix it" adage kinda fits here.

Comment 5 minutes and it is running flawlessly (Score 2) 41

I had to follow the link to the developer (SNESREV) and select the Zelda3 Github page. I followed the instructions for a Windows machine and viola! The only step that some view as a grey area is obtaining the Zelda3 ROM. I have the cartridge so no grey here. With the default settings I was getting over 300 FPS.

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