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Why in the world would you want another company to run the App Store?? I for one have no interest in returning to the PC days of crapware. A part of Microsoft’
by cududa 7y ago
Why in the world would you want another company to run the App Store?? I for one have no interest in returning to the PC days of crapware.
A part of Microsoft’s 2001 consent decree with the DOJ was they couldn’t dictate what middleware couldn’t/ should be installed. The second order effect of that is bloated terrible PC’s with massive security vulnerability surface area.
- ascagnel_ 7y agoThe consent decree was also used by not-really competitors like Symantec to try to block MS from hardening the OS kernel in Vista/Win7. https://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/tip/Microsoft-PatchGuard-Locking-down-the-kernel-or-locking-out-security https://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/tip/Microsoft-PatchGua...