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what surprises me the most about Microsoft related hate is that, despite the fact that they had (still have pretty much) control over the OS market they never l
by Barrin92 5y ago
what surprises me the most about Microsoft related hate is that, despite the fact that they had (still have pretty much) control over the OS market they never locked their system down or charged people in any capacity.
People take it for granted that you can just run what you want on your windows machine but they could have turned it into smartphone style locked down system. Imagine if every app developer in history had to fork 15-30% of their sales over to Microsoft just for building on Windows, they could have made a trillion bucks or something.
- Mikeb85 5y agoThey didn't do it because regulators were already on them, hard. They literally funded Apple to try have a competitor so they wouldn't be broken up. A judge did, at one point, rule that they should be broken up anyway.
- emodendroket 5y agoWell we're all just lucky nobody had thought of that yet.
- bayindirh 5y ago
- viraptor 5y agoWhile it's not locked, they're certainly pushing you that way. For example the only built-in installer for VS projects right now essentially gives you a choice of either a plain directory of files, or a nice process to release to the windows store. Want a simple MSI/installer - deal with the pain yourself. Once you do try to distribute your own app, you need to shell out >$200/yr for code signing certificates which pass the smartscreen filter, otherwise your app will be randomly prevented from running. And other issues... With every version things get just a tiny bit more inconvenient for out-of-store software releases.