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They'll loose probably the same amount of users they lost with the (annoying) "Do you really want to open $app?" dialogs (which I assume is just a rounding error).

What strikes me is that such behaviour is legal (as a dominant software provider regarding OSs).

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I just yesterday discovered the new S mode where you can only run apps from their store... You can disable it but you need to sign-in, after having had to work around that already during setup. They really treat the user like an idiot to be exploited, shamelessly.

Is that really new? Windows 8 has an S version that was exactly that, and I don't believe you could unlock it.

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