Valve's Newell: Windows 8 "catastrophe" driving Valve to embrace Linux

Don't want these emails? Unsubscribe here. Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Top stories: Jul 20 - Jul 27 Features OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: the Ars Technica review by John Siracusa Apple's traditional desktop computing business has suffered many indignities over the past decade. Once Apple's flagship product line, the Mac first found itself playing second fiddle to the iPod—a mere music player—in the early 2000s. Today, matters are worse; on a graph of Apple's revenues, the Mac now appears as a thin strip of earth while iOS devices are the mountain that sits upon it. Read More Opposable Thumbs Valve's Newell: Windows 8 "catastrophe" driving Valve to embrace Linux by Peter Bright Valve head—and one-time Microsoft employee—Gabe Newell has branded Windows 8 "a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space" at videogame conference Casual Connect in Seattle. The Valve boss continued, saying that in the fallout from Windows 8, "we'll lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs, who will exit the market. I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people." Newell criticised Windows 8 while talking about the future of the gaming industry, and you can read everything he said at VentureBeat. Read More Features Ninja power: open-source HTML5 toolset aims to enable richer Web apps by Ars Staff Modern HTML rendering engines and emerging standards make it possible to create a new class of rich experiences that could previously be achieved only with native development toolkits—but developers need better Web development frameworks and authoring tools in order to take advantage of the possibilities. Read More Forward this message to a friend More hot stories Apple stepping up mobile payments, security with AuthenTec buyout SUSE Linux powers 147,456-core German supercomputer Does Windows 8 succeed as a true tablet operating system? Spoofing a Microsoft Exchange server: A new how-to Dotcom tells Ars: industry stats vindicate Mega's takedown policy OS X Dashboard: can it be revived, or is it destined to be a ghost town? Facebook's first post-IPO earnings meet estimates (Updated) Liveblog: Facebook's first ever earnings call today Older worker termites become exploding, toxic defenders Humble Indie Bundle expands to pay-what-you-want music downloads Email Admin Center This newsletter is a service of Ars Technica. Should you no longer wish to receive these messages, unsubscribe. To ensure delivery of this newsletter to your inbox and to enable images to load in future mailings, please add civis@arstechnica.com to your e-mail address book or safe senders list. You are receiving this email at narrongs.hotmobile@blogger.com. Condé Nast Digital 1166 Avenue of the Americas, 15th Floor, New York, NY 10036, attn: Ars Technica Email Coordinator To view our Privacy Policy click here.