Windows 10 Made Steam Machines Irrelevant, Alienware Exec Says

Windows 8 put the future of PC gaming at risk and that was the moment when Valve’s Steam Machines started gaining ground, with several large manufacturers announcing their support for SteamOS, an operating system that was specifically supposed to replace Windows as the top gaming platform.

Alienware was one of the companies that stepped away from Windows at a time when Microsoft looked like it became confused with the purpose of its desktop operating system, so the company started adopting Steam Machines as part of a “just in case” strategy in order to be prepared for the moment when gaming shifts away from Windows.

“I think the landscape two years ago was very different to what it is today,” Azor said. “The catalyst for the Steam Machine initiative was really around what Microsoft’s decisions were with Windows 8, and if you remember that operating system, it really stepped away from gamers in a big way. We were concerned as an industry that we were going to lose P...