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Leaked MS Presentation Shows App Store Plans For Windows 8
FrankNFurter sends word of an internal Microsoft presentation leaked online today that contains details about Windows 8. The slides mention support for 3-D displays, connectivity upgrades, rapid startup times, and an integrated application store. Quoting Neowin:
"Consumers will be able to search on the web or locally on a Windows 8 machine to access applications from the store. Microsoft also details plans for application developers to help reach millions of users. One of the goals is to ensure licensing and monetization for developers is flexible with a transparent on-boarding process. It's clear that the 'Windows Store' will be a software service Microsoft provides and hosts fully in the cloud. The company will likely build the distribution model on Windows Azure to lure application developers."
You're an idiot.
Queue, as in prepare the line of idiots tripping over each other to claim that Apple somehow has different rules because they're "not a monopoly", when by this loose definition they certainly are in the smartphone app market.
Queue, also, grammar correcting idiots who don't know how easy it is to wriggle out of your asinine pedantry.
No, they don't, unless you use the new age hippie definition of "monopoly".
Yeah, it's all those hippie economists and lawyers always smoking the Mary Jane and discussing economic theory while at their beancounter love ins.
You do know you can get a _free_ operating system to run on your computer right? Or you can buy e.g. Apple computers, or computers with all variety of free operating systems.
Please note the extreme cluelessness of Mr. RighSaidFred. I mean seriously, if you're going to go on a rant about competition in the market, of all things, don't you think you should at least know who the buyers in the relevant market are? The people MS is squeezing are OEMs who buy Windows licenses as a component of the computer systems they sell. They are NOT average consumers who are buying computers. And yes, sure, Dell can ship Linux computers instead of Windows ones, but if they try to move to that as their business model they're fighting an enormous uphill battle against lock in due to application incompatibility and MS has lost in court over illegally breaking that compatibility. If the CEO of Dell were to stop doing business with MS and stop buying Windows licenses then he'd be out of a job within the week, so no, buyers in the market do not have a viable other choice right now for mainstream computing.
Congratulations on fundamentally misunderstanding the market you're complaining about, genius.