[shmerl]

> There really is no rational reason to highlight Microsoft as especially bad player in this market - on the contrary (as long as they are not the only game in town, of course).

How are they a good player, if they could back Vulkan instead of pushing lock-in DX12, but they didn't? It's clearly bad.

[fsloth]

If they would actively block good Vulkan implementations on Windows - yes, that would be a dick move. Is that the situation, though?

[shmerl]

They actively block it on Xbox.

[fsloth]

Ok, fair enough. Although I don't see the benefit of opening multiple graphics API:s on a closed hardware platform that is the Xbox console.

[shmerl]

That's what "closed" here means :) I.e. they block competition.