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Old 10-24-2012, 03:58 PM   #133
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Originally Posted by scrapking View Post
Now that the Nook business has been spun off, and Microsoft has been brought in as a junior partner, they may start smartening-up. We can hope. Microsoft certainly has a more open platform vision than B&N. Windows is perhaps the most open commercially successful platform of all time, and even the Xbox is a more open platform than any previous game system (look at its support for self-published, peer-reviewed indie games and apps on the Xbox, something the competition wouldn't dream of doing).
Microsoft's vision for the future is NOT open. On Windows 8, apps designed for older versions of Windows will still work (for now), however you will be forced to purchase new Metro/Modern/Whatevertheycallit apps through Microsoft.

I was holding out for a Surface, but after learning this I'm thinking not. It completely shocked me, and I suspect it's the beginning of the end of Microsoft.
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