Two gaming industry heavyweights (no pun intended in reference to Newell!) have chimed in their opinions about the not yet even released Win8. (http://kotaku.com/5929569/blizzard-isnt-happy-with-windows-8-either)
Why?
Well, neither of them have said all that much outright - to my knowledge - but Newell did talk some about MS's moves towards an apparant closing of the Win ecosystem and why that would be bad. I'm sure the enforced use of the official Microsoft-owned and -run app store is an ominous threat to these entities as well.
MS has been increasingly problematic in relation to free computing for a while now. For example you can't write third-party device drivers and get them to run (without fiddling and inconveniencing the user) under 64-bit Win7 without paying an annual and fairly hefty windows tax to microsoft for a security certificate. Then there was this hubbub about secure boot and linux earlier this year, and now this.
If these two guys think this way - and I dunno about Pardo, but Newell's absolutely as smart as they come - I'm sure others in the PC biz are feeling the same way these two do.
Why?
Well, neither of them have said all that much outright - to my knowledge - but Newell did talk some about MS's moves towards an apparant closing of the Win ecosystem and why that would be bad. I'm sure the enforced use of the official Microsoft-owned and -run app store is an ominous threat to these entities as well.
MS has been increasingly problematic in relation to free computing for a while now. For example you can't write third-party device drivers and get them to run (without fiddling and inconveniencing the user) under 64-bit Win7 without paying an annual and fairly hefty windows tax to microsoft for a security certificate. Then there was this hubbub about secure boot and linux earlier this year, and now this.
If these two guys think this way - and I dunno about Pardo, but Newell's absolutely as smart as they come - I'm sure others in the PC biz are feeling the same way these two do.