Recent titles ( Gears Tactics, Microsoft Flight Simulator), and traditional Xbox console exclusives coming to PC, indicate that the company knows the PC is a significant market. I would have said to you that Age of Empires is dead, Microsoft killed it and that Microsoft should piss off out of the games industry because they are ruining everything they touch.
If you had come to me seven years ago and told me that Age of Empires would be a thing again, I would have called you a fool. Developer Relic Entertainment, World's Edge