Tim Sweeney: How the Universal Windows Platform is like Facebook and a boiling frog

Microsoft is working to unify its desktop, mobile, and gaming platforms, but one vocal critic thinks this could come with some frightening consequences for the open legacy of the PC.

Tim Sweeney is not giving up his fight with Microsoft over what he argues is the closed nature of the Universal Windows Platform. During a fireside chat today at the GamesBeat Summit in Sausalito, California, the Epic Games founder and overseer of the Unreal Engine game-making tool also pushed back against critics of his own who think he’s exaggerating the threat of UWP. But the industry veteran claimed that we’ve seen companies make these kinds of moves before, and he wants to stop it now before it’s too late.