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Originally Posted by teh603
Except that MS won that one on the appeal just by not getting broken apart. It also has approval to lock any ARM-based Surfaces into Win8, so it wouldn't be a far stretch to extend monopolistic behavior to other parts of the OS as well.
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I disagree with that stretch. I believe that the reason MS sought to be able to lock the ARM Surfaces was to make it more attractive for enterprise deployment. A tablet OS that can be tightly controlled by the company deploying it. Holders of Enterprise licenses can even deploy (via a special sideloading functionality) their own in-house Metro apps.
(While I haven't tried it myself, I believe the rest of us can accomplish the same thing with a Developer Certificate.)
I haven't seen anything to indicate that the main OS is turning into a walled garden. There certainly aren't any remaining surprises for Win 8 - the release preview has been in use since the Spring, and it was released to market last month.