I guess eventually? This year we did get a good helping of Bethesda, Lucasarts, Paradox and Warner Bros games, so maybe next year we might get Microsoft and Take-Two Interactive.
The Oddworld games have been removed from GamersGate, but there is a DRM-free version on the Zone Platform. It doesn't really matter, though, as Microsoft had nothing to do with the digital version of the game and it's instead self-published by Oddworld Inhabitants themselves.
Dungeon Siege doesn't belong to Microsoft. Instead, we're still waiting for Square Enix to deliver.

Oh really? I didn't know that! I thought it was still owned by Microsoft. Anyway, it's a great game either way and we need it here! :)

Yup. Make sure to remind Square Enix of that when we have yet another weekend promo without either of the three games in the series here. ;)

Microsoft: "No more games for you, you've had enuff. Which is none, but still enuff."

They might release the games once they are complete and patch free , to avoid the complex gog patch process

aoe 2 hd - still buggy specially after the recent launch of a new expansion

aom extended - buggy + new expansion yet to be released

I hope the zoo tycoon games might show up some day

This why when we get a time machine we need to prevent the xbox from happening.

Curious, I never noticed they removed the Oddboxx, thankfully I've got my downloaded drm free version. Bit strange how
Munch never made it here then. I remember when it was announced for the XBox (and partly in the ending of Abe's Exoddus) it was an XBox exclusive. The only game that made me actually consider getting an XBox because the previous two games were so great.

The wiki page lists Microsoft as publisher, with EA publishing stranger's wrath, so I just assumed it was in fact a Microsoft published game and hence why it wasn't here.

The Wikipedia page listed the original publishers of the retail versions. Ever since then, the developers have gotten their rights back and now self-publish all games in the series across digital stores.

As for why Munch's Oddysee isn't here, my best guess would be that GOG would rather not sell a game that has multiple reviews and forum posts on its Steam page that say that it just doesn't work. Oddworld Inhabitants have officially mentioned that they would be releasing a new fixed version of the game along with its mobile release and I suspect that GOG might be waiting to see whether that one would work better.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/15740/discussions/0/618463738386140569/#c530645446319059956

That might be it indeed. Sure it wasn't the best of ports I've tried and some of the keyboard mappings make very very little sense (especially when swimming). But on the 3 different systems I've tried it, it's been running rather solidly. And Stranger's Wrath had some quirky PC controls too.

Thank you Gog for having some quality control with your titles :-)

I agree completely. From an emotional perspective, probably most of us (myself included) think it is unlikely to see such things happen, but there is nothing absolute and impossible about it. Just a short few months ago people thought it'd be completely and totally impossible to ever see any Bethesda games here, and now we have several. There was Warner Bros. before that, Lucasarts before that, and others.

Likewise, Microsoft criticized Linux and open source software as being heathen communist software for years, attributing all sorts of horrible statements to it. Now, Microsoft not only ships various open source software themselves, but they have contributed some large chunks of code directly to the Linux kernel themselves, and they now have their own Linux distribution and are releasing more and more pieces of software as open source. The take home from that, is that Microsoft painted themselves in strong opposition to open source and Linux and now it just makes good business sense for them so they're backpedalling on that and embracing Linux and open source a small but increasing amount.

What it really boils down to in the end is not gut feelings or emotions at all but business decisions. If and when a company thinks on their own terms (not dictated to them by 3rd parties) that they stand to make money from putting their games on GOG.com, and they're able to figure out a way to do this in a manner that is acceptable both to themselves, to GOG's requirements, and to any legal agreements they're subject to, then there is a chance that they may decide to bring their games to GOG.com too. Of course in many cases that would involve spending some engineering on some games and that needs to be taken into account to whether or not they feel such an investment is worth it for a projected return-on-investment. But it does happen as we've now seen many times, and I think this will become increasingly common in the future as GOG gets bigger and attracts more companies and the Galaxy platform matures and offers more feature parity with other platforms.

I think such is ultimately inevitable, the only thing I/we don't know is the time frame, and we're inclined to think of time frames for things like this in a way that if it isn't currently happening visibly right this instant - then "it'll never happen". But alas those are just emotional responses that don't ultimately have any weight unless someone has a functioning crystal ball. :)

Aside from all that though, GOG has been talking to Microsoft for a long time now and I'm sure something will eventually come out of it. With the introduction of the Lucasarts Star Wars games here, hell has already frozen over, so I think it is reasonable now to think that some day we'll also see pigs fly too. :)

I see you believe.
If Microsoft would sell games DRM-free on GoG, I'd have a problem, for I'd be tempted to give away money which would end up at Microsoft... - a very scary thought, but I don't believe in it anyway.

Wut? Open source software and Linux distribution by MS? oÒ

I remember reading about some of the old games with DRM not working on W10 and MS came right out said you can get old DRM free games from GOG. So at-least we know they know we exist. That something I guess. :P

Courtesy of Phoronix:
Microsoft Will Open-Source Its JavaScript Engine
It's Been One Year Since Microsoft Announced .NET Open-Source, Linux Plans
Microsoft Publishes Early OpenSSH For Windows Code
Red Hat Partners Up With Microsoft In The Cloud
The Surprising Open-Source / Linux Microsoft Announcements Made So Far This Year

Also, Microsoft's repositories on GitHub:
https://github.com/microsoft/

Is there a problem currently with running these games from CD? I have have AOE/1/2/Mythology and they all work fine. Just pick them up and play. I doubt M$ will be coming here soon, though you never know, though with these "hd" remakes being sold on steam I would imagine that would be milked before any other options are looked at.

I'd consider it, but it'd depend on the game and how interesting it was to me. I have only bought one Microsoft game ever, Microsoft Flight Simulator X Deluxe. I had to bite my tongue to do it too, but at the same time I had to admit that it was the best general purpose flight simulator out there and some years later now it still is. Eventually they layed off the entire development team and end-of-life'd support for the game which was disappointing, but now the game is updated and re-released on Steam. Sadly, as far as I know I'd have to buy it again to get the Steam version though so I'm not in a hurry to do that. I'd seriously consider it if it came to GOG though with full multiplayer.

Yep, see the links Maighstir provided, and hit google up for more too. They haven't done a complete 180 on open source, but individual business units and projects at Microsoft have individually started embracing open source and Linux and it seems like that is on the rise. For anyone that has believed strongly in open source though, it really was only a matter of time until Microsoft "got it' so to speak. I don't expect anything from them but it's highly likely that we'll see them release more in the future too. My only issue is that I haven't personally looked yet, but I suspect their licenses are GPL incompatible and probably not OSI/FSF approved, but whether I'm right or wrong on that it's a step in the right direction at least.