Seems to me Valve is making Steam progressively worse. Steam didn't use to have "trading cards" and shoving "social" shit down our throats. Steam client becoming more and more fucking bloated and Sweeney is going to blame that on Microsoft?

No, because he doesn't see that Steam already is heading into a nosedive and since the Steam console went nowhere, along with the crapton of shovelware that litters Steam these days, it's pretty clear Valve is Steam's worst enemy. Microsoft doesn't even enter into it..

Of course Win32 will go away one day. Such is the way of APIs. What a prophet. But not in the next decade.

Sweeney and Steam and anyone can make their UWP apps already and they never have to sell them through the Windows Store. But the fact is, eventually the Windows Store will be the "go-to" place to get apps and games. Like these things are on all other platforms.

^This. Also given the lack of trust expressed towards MS (in this thread in particular), the less power MS has over the user the better. If only a boycott of Apple could have the same results and save us from ruin... one can only wish (but sadly doubt it ever be).

I may be mistaken, but I believe all Unix built Oses, including Android are much more secure by default.
For one thing you cannot access certain (many) parts of the system (and file system) without forcing root access.
For other no software can be installed without user consent (in Android you have to enable install NOT from Store),
and unless allowed for another program to do just that (which require giving it root as well), you should be safe from anything
- including nothing could happen to you no matter where you surf just from surfing - if you disregard the "notice" your system is infected so you must install some obscure software to help it... Which is ever so common on Windows systems as well,
Yet on the Windows system it might as well be true with all the security flaws that may allow malware installation through backdoors like opening a word document or even a media file! So I wouldn't trust MS for making a new "Secured" environment as I will assume MS most likely built into it their own backdoors to exploit, and guess what, in So Many Windows 10 places they surely did , and later applied much of this to older Win 7 and 8 via updates :/

Thinking to more Unix based OSes, you can get software to run without installing it (assuming you have the executables), HOWEVER! If they contain malware, the worst it can do is affect your personal files and pretty much nothing else.

Well, the same applies to Windows. Don't run anything as your main Admin user and you are similarily safe. It all boils down to user stupidity no matter which OS.

I remember trying to do the exclusive 2 accounts, giving myself a regular user account for such protections. But there's annoyances in common actions that quickly made the constant back and forth switching so annoying I ended up dropping it. One for sure was trying to burn simple CD's or DVD's, a common practice when you'd want to do backups. I can't remember what else there was that was annoying.

2 things.
1) I recall the DVD burning issue you mention, back in 2002 or so. There was a way to bypass that, but it did take me the better part of two days to do it properly.
2) Run As and/or UAC both mean you no longer need to switch accounts. And Run As was available back in 2002 from what I recall.

In 2002 i was still using 98 as i recall. I would have tried the multiple accounts thing between 2008 and 2012, getting fed up how many simple tasks i needed to do as admin which didn't seem to require it.

Win98 didn't support multiple accounts. The NT based windows did, and in 2008 you shouldn't be having issues burning CDs as a normal user.

I know, I don't recall issues with 98. I used XP SP2 for a long time which I recall is firmly in the 2005 release window as I recall having to upgrade a number of military computers to use that specific version of XP made with an install and companion BartPE disc.