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JamesDean · #13 02-28-2013, 01:06 PM

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Originally Posted by spdrun

Only sold in packs of 100, which basically anally reams smaller companies that want to use custom software. Hope the next "Fukushima" happens at Hanford and the wind is blowing towards Seattle that day.

Basically, Jobs/Apple pioneered computing as a prison. Micro$hit is now trying to emulate them. Stallman was right about being glad that Jobs was gone.

I haven't seen this packs of 100 thing. I've seen one off licenses you get via Visual Studio 2012. The ones that need renewed/armed after 90 days. That doesn't sound like too much of a bother for a small operation of a few people. 90 days is not that often.

For larger organizations, it says that you can use Windows 8 Enterprise connected to an Active Directory domain with appropriately set group policy options and be able to side-load applications no problem.

You seem to dislike Microsoft, just a little. lol.

Unless you were specifically writing Windows 8 Metro UI apps then you would have been fine. In my case, I am developing an application for a friend of mine's project and if I target only Windows 8 Metro, I will lose a good deal of the market as not everyone is going to have a W8 machine. So I am using a standard WPF type application that runs full screen and is tablet/touch friendly.