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It definitely hasn't. They've been terribly critical over the years. I think the issue is that they are not as biased against them as the rest of the industry who know how to get clicks for Microsoft bashing.
Have you noticed a pattern in BBC's malware reporting? When it's about windows malware, they deliberately avoid mentioning the name windows, instead calling it "PC malware" or "computer virus". But when it's about Android malware, they make darn sure to call it what it is, Android malware. In that case they don't do the dance of calling it, say, "mobile malware". I don't know about you, but to me this is a blatant fo…
Minecraft creator attacks Microsoft's Windows 8 plan
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Re: Minecraft creator attacks Microsoft's Windows 8 plan
#22Not related to the point at hand, but why don't people mention the millions of copies sold on other platforms? More than 7.5 million copies of the title have been sold Minecraft has sold 7.5 Million (+) of the PC version, it has also sold millions of copies of the iOS version, the Android version and the Xbox version which just recently broke 5 (edit: sorry, 4) million sales. Seems strange not to say something like:…
In the agreements for some of those distribution channels there are stipulations against releasing specific sales data.
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The BBC has always been biased toward microsoft.
It definitely hasn't. They've been terribly critical over the years. I think the issue is that they are not as biased against them as the rest of the industry who know how to get clicks for Microsoft bashing.
Some think so.
http://www.slated.org/bbc_microsoft_bias_summary
But I think they're biased against everybody. At heart, journalists tend toward cynicism...
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But certification isn't new, and is still optional... I don't understand why developers are up in arms over it? Also, is it intrinsically bad? It's proving that the software you installed is from a particular publisher and hasn't been tampered with, isn't that a good thing?
I think it's a minority of developers that are up in arms against in. As a user and developer I've welcomed it on the Mac. Developers can easily certify their apps and it gives customers confidence. If you choose not to certify your app you don't lose out, your software will still run. It will be pretty much the same on Windows (although I find their policies a bit more restrictive). If you don't want to certify, it…
But if you certify and offer a shop for certified apps where the shop owner gets a cut this creates a huge incentive for the owner to do everything in its power to get more apps into the shop.
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I think it's a minority of developers that are up in arms against in. As a user and developer I've welcomed it on the Mac. Developers can easily certify their apps and it gives customers confidence. If you choose not to certify your app you don't lose out, your software will still run. It will be pretty much the same on Windows (although I find their policies a bit more restrictive). If you don't want to certify, it…
But if you certify and offer a shop for certified apps where the shop owner gets a cut this creates a huge incentive for the owner to do everything in its power to get more apps into the shop.
There will always be apps people need that don't fit in the store. e.g. 18+ games won't be available but lots of PC users want to play them. If Microsoft made it so only certified apps could be installed they would lose a lot of users to alternative platforms. People are looking at this like it is a slippery slope. It could be but it's highly unlikely as it would hurt consumers and the barriers to switching OS aren't that high for most people.
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It's really surprising (to me) that 10k people per day are still buying pc minecraft. I'd think pretty much everyone that was interested in a game like that would have gotten it by now? How can there still be 10k new people per day (over what, 3 years now?) that have just found out about minecraft?
Currently (I'm in London UK) Minecraft has a huge folllowing among boys aged (roughly) 8-14. As long as that demographic remains obsessed there'll be a constant new market.
Yeah, my 13yo just latched onto it recently.
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It definitely hasn't. They've been terribly critical over the years. I think the issue is that they are not as biased against them as the rest of the industry who know how to get clicks for Microsoft bashing.
Some think so. http://www.slated.org/bbc_microsoft_bias_summary But I think they're biased against everybody. At heart, journalists tend toward cynicism...
I've seen that before. To be honest, most of it is crap. It's cherry picking. They're always splurging over Ubuntu and raspberry pi.
the only bias I see is pro war and pro current government And the occasional shoddy piece of journalism.
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#28The thing is Windows 8 is radically changing a lot of stuff and that won't sit well with most businesses in the PC world. Maybe Windows 8 won't give Valve or Notch a death blow by removing the "desktop mode", but I think it's pretty obvious that Microsoft wants the future of Windows to be "Metro-only", and these guys can see that. So it's not Windows 8 per se that they are mad about. It's the whole direction Windows…
The mix of plain desktop and touch environment is what draws me to Win8. I didn't get a Asus Transformer, as the only emacs I could get there was in a terminal, and in a sandbox. With a Win8 tablet, I get tablet-y stuff, and a full desktop env with a full unsandboxed emacs. Exactly what I want. So I hope they keep this best-of-both-worlds for the forseeable future.
Only if you get the x86 version. Arm version only runs Explorer, IE and Office in desktop mode
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#29>> ""Microsoft owns the Xbox. Apple owns the iOS. The charm of the PC is that nobody owns it... " Yes, but Microsoft owns Windows. The certification change doesn't affect the PC it affects Windows users. His final comment is a lot more balanced: >> "Microsoft is free to do whatever they want with their OS. I won't support all of what they do, however" His comment about Microsoft trying to ruin the PC as an open platf…
You haven't been following the trusted computing for windows 8 row then?
you won't be able to run linux on these machines.
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#30>> ""Microsoft owns the Xbox. Apple owns the iOS. The charm of the PC is that nobody owns it... " Yes, but Microsoft owns Windows. The certification change doesn't affect the PC it affects Windows users. His final comment is a lot more balanced: >> "Microsoft is free to do whatever they want with their OS. I won't support all of what they do, however" His comment about Microsoft trying to ruin the PC as an open platf…
"... Build Minecraft for Linux and actively promote Linux. ..."
Is this a tech problem? Maybe the MS strategy is to move gaming to the XBox where it has greater control, where greater control >> revenue.
Minecraft is written in Java ~ http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Development_Resources there are also various ports with other code bases ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minecraft#Ports so it's available on Linux but I would guess Microsoft is the biggest source of revenue. So you're right it won't ruin the PC, just the coffers of the parent company.