{"id":7533,"date":"2012-10-17T11:02:26","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T16:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=7533"},"modified":"2012-10-19T00:17:46","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T05:17:46","slug":"the-new-microsoft-walled-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=7533","title":{"rendered":"The New Microsoft Walled Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>For the first time in the history of the PC, Microsoft is rolling out a new Windows ecosystem for which they will be the sole software distributor. If you buy Windows 8, the only place you will be able to download software that integrates with its new user interface will be the official <a href=\"http:\/\/windows.microsoft.com\/is-IS\/windows-8\/apps\">Windows Store<\/a>. Microsoft will have <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/windows\/apps\/hh694083.aspx\">complete control<\/a> over what software will be allowed there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/mollyrocket.com\/casey\/index.html\">Critical Detail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This article has a very lengthy description of Microsoft Windows and MS-DOS describing\u00a0 past evolution of the PC to where it is now going.\u00a0 In essence, Microsoft want to be like Apple.\u00a0 It will be interesting to see how this all plays out in the next year.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s another blurb:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now, this is apparently a point of some contention. Perhaps because Microsoft has not made a bigger deal about it in their press releases, not everyone believes that distributing software for the modern UI will require developers to get Microsoft\u2019s permission. But they are wrong. In order to set the record straight once and for all, a complete, thoroughly researched analysis of Microsoft\u2019s official publications on the subject is included as <a href=\"http:\/\/mollyrocket.com\/casey\/index.html#AppendixB\">Appendix B<\/a> to this article. It demonstrates that there is no method for developers to distribute modern UI applications to the internet at large without receiving explicit approval from Microsoft.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in the history of the PC, Microsoft is rolling out a new Windows ecosystem for which they will be the sole software distributor. If you buy Windows 8, the only place you will be able to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=7533\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[661,645,50,594],"class_list":["post-7533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-gaming","tag-history","tag-microsoft","tag-walled-gardens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7533"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7752,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7533\/revisions\/7752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}