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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. And it begins... by MagikSlinger · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The end of computing freedom as we know it.

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  2. Stallman was right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Now, how crazy does he seem? He experienced the lock down that mainframes had and now we're experiencing the same things with smaller computers. Back then IBM (among others) also tracked your software and made sure things just ran.

    It'll be interesting to see how Windows Power Users deal with this. They'll have to look to IT to be set up as a user who can "side-load" an application. Like that will happen.

  3. To all who said "but the iPhone is not a computer" by Geof · · Score: 5, Insightful

    To all who said about Apple's lock-down "but the iPhone is not a computer", this was always the end game. The argument was that the iPhone is not a computer (a general-purpose platform), therefore it's OK to restrict what users can do with it. (And besides, they said, we'll still have our PCs.) They confused cause and effect. The iPhone is not a computer because it is locked-down.

    With Apple making money hand over fist, it should be no surprise that Microsoft wants in. Will they succeed in their attempt at control? I don't know. But I'm certainly not going to make excuses for them.

    Don't give me the any flak about hating Apple. My desktop is a Mac. But my new laptop runs Linux.

  4. Re:Just another monopoly by Dog-Cow · · Score: 5, Insightful

    One day you will learn what a monopoly is in the eyes of the Law, and your poor little mind will simply melt.

    Hint: Apple is not a monopoly, in precisely the same way Ford isn't a monopoly for being the only manufacturer of Ford vehicles.

  5. Boycott by msobkow · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So don't buy Windows 8. Stick with 7 or switch to Linux.

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  6. 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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    #DeleteChrome