Microsoft weighs in on Valves living room strategy, admits Windows gaming should be like Steam (interview) | GamesBeat
"Valve is right down the street from us," Spencer noted. "They've done a great job of keeping the PC ecosystem strong at a time where I don't mind saying that we could have been more focused on what was going on in PC gaming."
Windows gaming is the other major digital games platform with the Windows App Store, which first appeared with the rollout of Windows 8 in August 2012. But Spencer admits that Microsoft has neglected PC gaming, even going so far as to say that it should've been creating their platform in Steam's likeness.
"We were probably too focused purely on console," Spencer admitted. "With Steam, [Valve has] done an amazing job of building this thing that, in a lot of ways, we should have been building as well at Microsoft."