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Like it or not, the Marketplace is the future of software distribution and Metro apps are the future of Windows. Us desktop users will be looked after, but we're not the primary focus anymore.
Like it or not, the Marketplace is the future of software distribution .....
Like it or not, the Marketplace is the future of software distribution and Metro apps are the future of Windows. Us desktop users will be looked after, but we're not the primary focus anymore.
Be interesting to see how the anti-competition rules work with that - I can't exactly see a hell of a lot of companies going for that as they'd have to pay Microsoft a percentage and when you're looking at companies like Adobe, Quark, etc. then the percentage may be small but it's a significant amount of cash.
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Do we have a date for the new preview release?
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Does that work with the latest release?
Let's face it, Microsoft needs to get this release out of the way sooner rather than later. I don't think another couple of mild updates to Windows 7 would do us much good. Windows 7, as it is, is a very solid modern desktop OS and will be around for a long time but I'm not seeing much else they can do with the platform. It's the same with OSX - the last couple of major version updates have been such a complete yawn I actually installed 10.6 on my MBP and forgot I had Lion.
At least with Windows 8 they are introducing a whole new platform that, by the time Windows 9 comes around, will have had 3 years to evolve and mature and in the meantime those who don't like it can stick to Windows 7. They may as well do it now while they have an extremely popular alternative. We'll also have three more years for Intel to give us decent mobile innards, for touch screen monitors (and laptops) to become more common and affordable, for tablet makers to get the early version 1 tat out of their system, etc etc.
Windows 8 is a few years ahead of its time.
Definitely the new Vista. Can't wait until it's finally out, and there are no "metro apps" worthwhile, just like there were never no "widgets".
Perhaps Microsoft is doing an "ultimate" version with the promise of more apps later.
Not for me, I'll skip this one. I never pay to be a beta tester.
They will probably work in the same way they work for the iOS store, the Mac store, Google play store and WP marketplace.Be interesting to see how the anti-competition rules work with that - I can't exactly see a hell of a lot of companies going for that as they'd have to pay Microsoft a percentage and when you're looking at companies like Adobe, Quark, etc. then the percentage may be small but it's a significant amount of cash.
There will still be ISO's, etc. floating around and the only way this will actually work is if people use it. Have a look at Windows Mobile Marketplace 6 which was shut recently because no-one used it.
Personally I don't want a tablet OS on my desktop.
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