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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Sep 27, 2012, 20:39

Doombringer

But this guy had no problem certifying Minecraft as an iOS app? Hypocrite much? I love these people who give Microsoft crap for their pursuit of a closed platform, but give Apple a pass on A) iOS in total, B) the Mac App Store, and C) Gatekeeper.

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	1.	Sep 27, 10:36	Re: Notch Knocks Win8: Minecraft Certification in Doubt	Darks
	3.	Sep 27, 10:39	Re: Notch Knocks Win8: Minecraft Certification in Doubt	eRe4s3r
	4.	Sep 27, 10:41	Re: Notch Knocks Win8: Minecraft Certification in Doubt	nin
	6.	Sep 27, 10:42	Re: Notch Knocks Win8: Minecraft Certification in Doubt	briktal
	7.	Sep 27, 10:43	Re: Notch Knocks Win8: Minecraft Certification in Doubt	elefunk
	15.	Sep 27, 11:17	Re: Notch Knocks Win8: Minecraft Certification in Doubt	Beamer
	16.	Sep 27, 11:18	Re: Notch Knocks Win8: Minecraft Certification in Doubt	TheEmissary
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	26.	Sep 27, 11:55	Re: Notch Knocks Win8: Minecraft Certification in Doubt	ASeven
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	28.	Sep 27, 11:58	Re: Notch Knocks Win8: Minecraft Certification in Doubt	sauron
	30.	Sep 27, 11:59	Re: Notch Knocks Win8: Minecraft Certification in Doubt	ASeven
	31.	Sep 27, 12:14	Re: Notch Knocks Win8: Minecraft Certification in Doubt	PHJF
	32.	Sep 27, 12:18	Re: Notch Knocks Win8: Minecraft Certification in Doubt	Beamer
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	13.	Sep 27, 11:07	Re: Notch Knocks Win8: Minecraft Certification in Doubt	eRe4s3r
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	75.	Sep 27, 17:51	Re: Notch Knocks Win8: Minecraft Certification in Doubt	DukeFNukem
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