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Originally Posted by pl001
Yes, that is how I understand it.
Adobe could do that for a legacy desktop app of course since the Windows 8 desktop is backwards compatible, but they could not release a Modern/Metro app anywhere other than the Windows Store. Well, technically they could, but buyers would need a special sideload license and jump through a bunch of hoops, so essentially it needs to be sold through the store.
I can tell you with absolute certainty the only way to download apps on my Surface RT is through the store or jailbreaking.
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Hmm. Interesting... thanks for pointing that out. Microsoft has a reputation to be developer friendly, but this is decidedly not, so I'll be very curious to see how this plays out, since it's such a new paradigm (I think that's the word) for Windows.