On Windows or Linux, you can run a portable application without installing anything. For instance, I have the choice to install FileZilla through the package manager on a Linux distro, or I could download the binary from SourceForge and subsequently run the .exe from a folder. Since Windows currently allows this (running an .exe from the desktop), why would they be testing the waters with the whole sideloading pricing changes and key policies? They lowered the [url=http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18829126/deploying-windows-8-app-on-several-devices-without-app-store/]cost[/url], but what difference does it currently make within the confines of the argument of "security" that a key to enable sideloading [i]is[/i] for security reasons, when a user can simply just install or run something easily downloaded off the internet? That would make no logical sense. Microsoft plans to entirely kill the Win32 desktop off in the future, and everything you do will go through the Windows store. They will get all the metrics about what you download, how much you spend, what kinds of applications you like, your name, address, credit card number, and don't forget that they can remotely delete things right off your PC too.

Upon Windows installation, it asks the user numerous privacy busting questions. Many people will leave the defaults selected, so Microsoft gets to learn even more about people. When are people going to start becoming educated and not go along with the program? I smell change in the air, as I am reading comments left and right from developers currently feeling alienated. No developers, no applications, a dead platform. Is Nutella a fucking retard or just a puppet? Because, please, I would like to know.

You won fair and square.

I will email you and we will arrange the $10 transfer. ::thumbup::

[quote="I, user."][quote="Scorpius"]I will put down $10 that they will delete it in less than 24 hours...[/quote]
I will be earning a cool $10 soon. :lol: 8-)

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Yay! I'm rich!!!

Scorpius, I do expect you to pay! :twisted:

It is amazing that the thread lasted 24 hours. :mrgreen:

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[b]lol![/b] He is an idiot.

I don't have a boss watching over me, he is a fool and a slave, hence, his slave mentality of "let Microsoft rule over his device".

How does this moron know you have a boss or are even at work? Does he have a camera on you? :lol:

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[quote="I, user."]I'm sorry but I just had to do this. :oops: Although, they most likely will delete that post very quickly, as they usually do, so here is a screenshot of it just in case.

[url=http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/You-must-pay-100-to-deploy-your-own-software-in-Windows]http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/You-must-pay-100-to-deploy-your-own-software-in-Windows[/url].[/quote]

You should have linked to the picture of the ass getting double fisted to really send home the message! :D

Nice picture, and Thanks! :)

I think MS can't be as stupid as they may seem, even though they are still really stupid. They know Windows is a dying animal, and that power users will move to an open platform like Linux in time. Is the poor developer in a third world country going to pay MS for a fucking license to do something on their own machine? I'm reading lots of developer posts from those that are coding on Linux for Windows. So, the best way for Microsoft (in their minds) to squeeze the maximum amount of money out of Windows is to make side loading difficult. They know they're alienating developers left and right, but I think they have ran internal statistics gauging the different risks. They really need that 20-30% cut of app sales, especially when their store is shit. Windows is also far less expensive than it used to be, so that money has to be made up through other avenues. This is a double edged sword as the alienation could grow bigger than MS calculated, resulting in a total catastrophe. It doesn't make any long-term sense to alienate developers whilst the store is a piece of crap. And we all know that Win32 is headed for the slaughter house.

Microsoft, you do not fool me. What has Nutella done thus far in the sense of improvements? Nothing.

@MasterOne

I love your occupation (Vagina inspector) you dirty old coot! :D

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By the way, threads like these are the ones developers need to know about so they can post here without being silenced. Get the word out!

Bad move from MS, but also good in other ways because hopefully it will get Windows to die an earlier death. Notice how they did this right after XP support ended? As if now users have nowhere to go and must bend over and get fucked some more. Fuck you Microsoft.

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