“If anything, we want Steam to be even more successful – they’ve done great things for PC gamers in terms of having a single store”, he said.

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Microsoft might be talking a lot about the gaming opportunities opened up by the launch of the Windows 10 operating system, but the company is apparently uninterested in launching a competitor to the Steam digital distribution system from Valve.

“Games for Windows was a prior approach where it was more, at that time, like “how do we take things?’…”

The specter of Microsoft’s previous attempts to support PC gaming looms large over their newest and freshest attempt, which is their push for PC gaming with Windows 10. Let us know in the comments section below! However, Valve is working assiduously to make the SteamOS platform as compatible and optimized as possible for its eventual launch this fall.

Microsoft’s senior PC gaming director Kevin Unangst wasn’t exactly subtle in his critique of the defunct Games for Windows Live service, but he also stopped just short of flat out calling the program a mistake.

Microsoft is now not intending to compete with Steam, but it is not ruling out the possibility entirely.

Unangst goes on to say that although competition is good, it has no plans to usurp Steam’s dominant position.

“But our goal right now isn’t to do anything else other than support Steam and help it run great on Windows 10″. This is a very humble approach compared to how Microsoft was running things previously. They pose a significant threat to Microsoft if the SteamOS actually takes off this fall.

While Windows 8 had little to offer PC gamers, Windows 10 with DirectX 12 is a different story.