'Microsoft is a new company,' says Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney, who once lambasted Microsoft.
, slamming the Windows 10 app store as"the most aggressive move Microsoft has ever made."
Fast forward to today, and the two have mended bridges: Sweeney actually appeared on-stage at Microsoft's keynote session at this year's Mobile World Congress to pledge Epic's support for theSweeney tells Business Insider that his about-face on Microsoft has everything to do with CEO Satya Nadella and his team, including Phil Spencer, Microsoft's executive vice president of gaming, and Alex Kipman, who leads HoloLens development.
His original skepticism is an"artifact" of the days of former CEO Steve Ballmer, which saw Microsoft undertake initiatives like Windows RT, which locked users into only installing apps from the Windows Store.
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