[Qt-interest] Windows 8 Store

[Bob Hood]

On 5/4/2011 8:50 AM, Atlant Schmidt wrote:
> Jason:
>> The Ovi store is for Nokia phones. They have a great infrastructure.
>> Nokia just needs to add OSX, Windows, and a Linux or two (RedHat/Debian)
>> using the same stuff.
>
>   You're joking, right?
>
>   Nokia is now almost-entirely aligned with Microsoft
>   (dare I say "controlled by Microsoft"?); why on Earth
>   would Microsoft want Nokia promoting either MacOS or
>   Linux or, in fact, any technology that would allow
>   users to escape from Microsoft (and .NET, etc.)?
>
>   Even for Nokia, the Ovi store is positioned as a place
>   to go to get "phone stuff" (and maybe, someday, "tablet
>   stuff"). It isn't a general-purpose app store for all
>   computers everywhere; positioning it that way would
>   greatly dilute its message and impact.
>
>                                Atlant

I have to say that I think Atlant is absolutely correct.  Microsoft is -- and
always has been -- only interested in promoting its own interests (i.e.,
Windows and all that goes along with it).  If it were not the case, they would
not incessantly re-create OpenSource software projects in a Windows-only idiom
(e.g., C# ~= Java), or make strident attempts to damage that movement.

Don't expect to see anything non-Windows-centric in any Windows App Store. 
It'll all be .NET/C#/Visual Basic -- everything based on Microsoft-owned
technologies.

(And before anybody starts arguing that C# is "OpenSource" -- admittedly, it
was designed to be implementable on non-Windows platforms -- to date, it has
not been adopted for serious software work anywhere but under Windows.  It is
is a Microsoft-owned technology, specifically designed to be a direct
competitor with Java.)