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the criticism here is imo unfounded. MS are exceptionally supportive of developers in my experience, and this feels like part of that. since blocking access to

by jheriko 10y ago

the criticism here is imo unfounded. MS are exceptionally supportive of developers in my experience, and this feels like part of that. since blocking access to the store is in fact an enterprise requirement... why not restrict it to the enterprise edition? ... and besides that. how about employers trusting their employees anyway? this is much less than what other platform holders have done in this respect too... Apple being foremost amongst the worst in this category - and yet still receiving fanboy support to the level of religiosity.

rjbwork 10y ago
>this is much less than what other platform holders have done in this respect too... Apple being foremost amongst the worst in this category - and yet still receiving fanboy support to the level of religiosity. People just like to hate on MS due to their feelings from the 90's and early 00's imo.
pritambaral 10y ago
> MS are exceptionally supportive of developers in my experience, and this feels like part of that That's a reasoning that does not justify the act. "We are friendly to developers" should not translate to "Users, you don't get to control your own computers (as much)". > how about employers trusting their employees anyway? Wut? That is a terrible argument, it does nothing to contribute to the discussion – which is about a recent Microsoft act, policy, and behaviour, and instead tries to swerve the discussion away from it into unrelated, unagreeable sociological and human-resource-management points. > is much less than what other platform holders have done in this respect too Doesn't excuse Microsoft > Apple being foremost amongst the worst in this category - and yet still receiving fanboy support Are they receiving support for a similar action. Support for an unrelated action is inadmissible here, because a corporation can be condemned for one thing and praised for another. Plus, is it the same people doing both the Apple-praising and the MS-bashing?

by jheriko 10y ago

rjbwork 10y ago

>this is much less than what other platform holders have done in this respect too... Apple being foremost amongst the worst in this category - and yet still receiving fanboy support to the level of religiosity. People just like to hate on MS due to their feelings from the 90's and early 00's imo.

pritambaral 10y ago

> MS are exceptionally supportive of developers in my experience, and this feels like part of that That's a reasoning that does not justify the act. "We are friendly to developers" should not translate to "Users, you don't get to control your own computers (as much)". > how about employers trusting their employees anyway? Wut? That is a terrible argument, it does nothing to contribute to the discussion – which is about a recent Microsoft act, policy, and behaviour, and instead tries to swerve the discussion away from it into unrelated, unagreeable sociological and human-resource-management points. > is much less than what other platform holders have done in this respect too Doesn't excuse Microsoft > Apple being foremost amongst the worst in this category - and yet still receiving fanboy support Are they receiving support for a similar action. Support for an unrelated action is inadmissible here, because a corporation can be condemned for one thing and praised for another. Plus, is it the same people doing both the Apple-praising and the MS-bashing?