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Notch Knocks Win8: Minecraft Certification in Doubt

[Sep 27, 2012, 10:29 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

A tweet by Minecraft creator Markus 'Notch' Persson relates an exchange with Microsoft about Windows 8 and the indie sandbox game: "Got an email from microsoft, wanting to help 'certify' minecraft for win 8. I told them to stop trying to ruin the pc as an open platform." He follows this expressing his distaste for the process and the new OS: "I'd rather have minecraft not run on win 8 at all than to play along. Maybe we can convince a few people not to switch to win 8 that way.." Thanks Computer and Video Games.

Got an email from microsoft, wanting to help "certify" minecraft for win 8. I told them to stop trying to ruin the pc as an open platform.
— Markus Persson (@notch) September 27, 2012

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Re: Notch Knocks Win8: Minecraft Certification in Doubt

Sep 27, 2012, 13:51

Graham

InBlack wrote on Sep 27, 2012, 11:02: yuastnav wrote on Sep 27, 2012, 10:38: "Certify minecraft for win8"? What does this even mean? It means that they want to turn Windows PC's into a closed system ala Apple's Macintosh computers. All software has to be 'certified' by Microsoft before the OS will let it run. Microsoft will probably take this a step further as they will only allow digital copies of the software to be purchaed through their built-in app buying software. (again ala Apple's Itunes) Sorry, we need to correct some ignorance here. OS X is not a closed system. It has a gatekeeper that can be completely turned off. Software can be downloaded from the Internet, installed from third party apps stores, or even compiled yourself with free tools that are both included in the OS and available freely online. The conduit for buying software as a digital download from Apple is the "App Store". iTunes is used for movies, TV shows, music, and iOS apps. I expect better from a site frequented by people this close to technology. If you're going to talk shit about something, understand it first. --Written from my Ubuntu installation on a self-built rig.

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