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Microsoft has protected itself from the next Netscape Navigator. Now every software vendor for Metro/WinRT is effectively running a market research for Microsof
by mkup 14y ago
Microsoft has protected itself from the next Netscape Navigator. Now every software vendor for Metro/WinRT is effectively running a market research for Microsoft: what feature should be included to the next version of Windows? And after adsorbtion of that feature, third party app can be kicked out off the MS app store.
The golden age of Windows shareware and ISVs is coming to the end.
Or we will use Windows 7 for 20 years as we did with XP for 10 years from its release date.
- silverbax88 14y agoThere are still corporations running XP and only now considering a move to Windows 7. They ignored Vista entirely, and they will do the same with Windows 8.