I think the EU might get the nightstick out again if they pull this. A lot of vendors are piggybacking on MS and this will mean anti-competitive behavior. Also

I think the EU might get the nightstick out again if they pull this. A lot of vendors are piggybacking on MS and this will mean anti-competitive behavior. Also, WinRT is a pretty big land grab by Microsoft and it's pissed a large number of developers off. If they kill the current ecosystem or lock people into a narrow subset of it, there is no longer a market or ecosystem. Simple as. The same is not true for Apple, who built an ecosystem from nothing. They're not cutting anyone off. Most of the MS-oriented development staff I know (100+ people) are starting to look at exit strategies from the MS ecosystem. Most of them have Apple machines and/or Linux native machines and VM's on the go. Quite a few have jumped ship to Java enterprise outfits already. When the rats start leaving...