Julio wrote on Jul 26, 2012, 06:17:
Anyways, Win8 is going to fail miserably on PCs. Smart OEMs will give consumers the option to stay Win7 and by default include Win7 over 8. There's really no problem here, everyone in the industry treat Win8 like its crap, and no problems.
Yeah and remember how MS forbade that after a while when vista came out and companies were still loading XP on as an option? After a few months MS said no one was allowed to do that anymore. They are going to do the same thing with win 8, I guarantee you.
theyarecomingforyou wrote on Jul 26, 2012, 09:18:
I'm incredibly surprised that Microsoft has opted to disallow any Metro app that isn't sold through the Windows Store, as that to me seems to be deliberately anti-competitive. It prevents companies like Amazon offering their own store, as they do on Android.
Why would you be surprised by anything MS does like this? They've done as bad or worse in the past. They are in fact fairly well known to do anything they can get away with, and then some that they can't.
Jay wrote on Jul 26, 2012, 10:37:
Is it still considered anti-competitive when Windows 8 isn't out yet and its marketshare and dominance is yet to be seen?
What seems to me that happens is the lawsuits happen after something comes out and take years. By then its a moot point and MS already has an iron fist control. Like the IE lawsuits, did anyone really care that MS had to put an option into the OS that asked if you wanted a different default browser? No, the ability to change default browser to firefox was something that was built into firefox for years (and other browsers were the same).
This comment was edited on Jul 26, 2012, 12:22.