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Microsoft Taking Apple's Walled Garden Approach For Metro Apps

Posted by Soulskill on from the leading-from-the-rear dept.

New submitter gauauu writes "Microsoft will be taking a walled-garden approach to Metro apps, only allowing enterprises and developers to side-load Metro apps in Windows 8, while everyone else will have to go through the Windows Store. Note that this only applies to Metro apps; the model for traditional desktop apps won't change."

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  1. Re:Just the start by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 5, Funny

    And Linux starts to look that much better.

    So you're predicting 2012 will be the Year of the Linux Desktop?

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