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Indeed - why not make a $2500 MSDN subscription compulsory to develop for the Windows desktop. After all if you are writing apps you can afford it.

If they decide that they don't want any apps on Windows other than Office it's their business. But it's a bit of a change from developers-developers-developers!

>Indeed - why not make a $2500 MSDN subscription compulsory to develop for the Windows desktop. After all if you are writing apps you can afford it.

You're being sarcastic, but it would a possible move too. And yes, if you're writing apps you can afford it. It's not like Windows has too few apps, anyway, the could use the price as a quality control to throw one-man software companies out (there goes 99% of shareware).

They could introduce an app store for windows8 where only MSFT approved apps could run.

They might not get many desktop upgrades from Win7 though !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Store

Quality is not the same as quantity.

Shareware is what made windows what it is (the good bits that is).

That would be like going into McDonalds and shooting everyone but the cleaners.

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