Could I set up a Steam Box shop myself, or would Valve only let licenced vendors sell em? My guess is it would be fine.
I totally read it wrong before but yes - looks like you'll have to license it if you want to sell it with hardware but it's free to do that:
From the website: http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/
SteamOS will be available soon as a free download for users and as a freely licensable operating system for manufacturers. Stay tuned in the coming days for more information.
I don't think "switching to SteamOS" is even the point of the OS. Sounds like it's basically just an open OS primarily designed for steam branded hardware. I'm sure there will be nothing preventing others from using it in more traditional setting but I don't think Valve expects that to be a big thing.
The goal here isn't to solely make an OS for Steam branded hardware. If you visit the website: http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/ you'll see it's to be made available for off the shelf hardware for anybody to install on their computers and to manufacturers with a small licensing fee. Obviously they'd put in the effort to make this compatible with both AMD/Nvidia offerings and presumably for Intel IGPs as well to appeal to the largest base possible. The more people install the OS the higher the chance they'll be buying and playing steam enabled games.
If you can run also run streaming software for local/online media that would be all I'd need for an OS in the livingroom. Some people might want TV tuner compatibility as well which I see no reason why it can't work. Give me XBMC and Netflix for Steam OS and I'm sold.
..A bullet might be a little bit overkill..
Actually, a bullet would be exactly kill. I've never heard of someone being 110% dead before.
Holy Department of Redundancy Department, Batman!
Holy Department of Redundancy Department, Batman!
Holy Shit, Superman!
Why?
The same reason why you need 2560x1600 on a 13" Macbook Pro... because.
The only reason I run Windows at home at all for is gaming, Stevesie is clearly trippin'
Maybe they should take him to that "farm" out in the country where he can "roam free" with other useless CEOs a little sooner?
That wasn't a quote from Steve Balmer it was from Ben Kuchera...
Ben Kuchera at the Penny Arcade Report points out that this could mean Microsoft will try to re-enter markets it has abandoned. He asks the company to "stay the hell away from PC gaming."
Real Programs don't use shared text. Otherwise, how can they use functions for scratch space after they are finished calling them?