[dba-Tech] Windows 8 has its limitations

They received quite a lot of flack over not allowing Flash or other browsers on the iOS platform and, more generally, over their App store policies and the rules you have to follow in order to get published on it. There has always been a lot of vocal criticism of this since Apple released the App store a number of years back - criticism that Apple acts like a dictator while gloating that neither Microsoft nor Google would do this sort of thing.

Criticism has died down somewhat lately because Apple has loosened restrictions in some areas and stuck to their guns in others long enough that people have just come to accept it as Apple being a controlling, perfectionist company.

Ultimately, the issue here isn't about Apple. It's about how Microsoft is behaving.

Hans


On 2012-05-10, at 5:02 PM, John Bartow wrote:

> How so?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Hans-Christian
> Andersen
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 6:49 PM
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> 
> They weren't.
> 
> Hans
> 
> 
> On 2012-05-10, at 4:25 PM, John Bartow wrote:
> 
>> Amazing how the leaders in the field, Apple, is given a free pass on 
>> this same issue.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim 
>> Lawrence
>> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 11:29 AM
>> To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
>> Subject: [dba-Tech] Windows 8 has its limitations
>> 
>> Windows 8 has decided to eliminate competition by ridding itself of 
>> some of its arch rivals.
>> 
>> Microsoft appears to have become intolerant of the market forces which 
>> have been drubbing its browser, into the ground, due to IE's lack of 
>> compliance with Open Standards.
>> 
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/10/mozilla_google_win8_arm_browse
>> r_dark
>> _ages/
>> 
>> I am sure that MS has many "GOOD" reasons for this exclusion but if 
>> the company had attempted such a move in the late nineties, Microsoft 
>> would have now been comprised of a number of smaller and separate
> companies today.
>> 
>> Unfortunately, this move may very well be, one more step towards 
>> putting itself on the wrong side of history and going in the wrong 
>> direction of market trends.
>> 
>> Jim
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