I am very sad to say that Windows 8 is apparently going to be a closed platform: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-windows_store/will-windows-8-allow-developers-to-post-metro-apps/9f28242b-4943-4ca2-bf63-d6f9b3a5b35f … Why isn't anyone covering this?
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Replying to @0xabad1dea
@0xabad1dea@miaubiz Do you have some links to good public coverage of this? I haven't found anything in the mainstream press.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @cmuratori
@cmuratori@miaubiz it was all covered to exhaustion many months ago. I remember@drpizza wrote like six billion things about it.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @0xabad1dea
@0xabad1dea@miaubiz@DrPizza I don't think so - I only saw one, and it was just a report about Valve: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/07/steams-newell-windows-8-catastrophe-driving-valve-to-embrace-linux/ …5 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @cmuratori
@cmuratori honestly it's complicated - native apps will run fine on "the desktop" but ARM builds don't have "the desktop"1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @0xabad1dea
@0xabad1dea But there's more at stake here than just ARM versions. I wrote up a more complete argument here:http://mollyrocket.com/casey/stream_0004.html …3 replies 3 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @cmuratori
@cmuratori@0xabad1dea Microsoft is just trying to pressure people (google? ibm? steam?) into making Linux a more viable desktop environment2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@raudelmil @0xabad1dea And doing a shockingly good job! I've installed Linux on two machines since realizing what was going on. #Scared
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