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Except there are no alternatives for those that sell software, as I mentioned on my comment FOSS users don't pay for desktop software.

[madeofpalk]

There's all the ways people sell software on Microsoft platforms.

Adobe has managed to get thousands from users without any 'help' from Microsoft.

[pjmlp]

How is Adobe going to do it when Windows follows the same footsteps than Mac OS X?

The only way will be the store, or why do you think Microsoft is making it easy to port Win32/WPF (legacy) applications to the store model?

When the applications that matter like Adobe are on the store, and Apple has proven the "my way or the highway" works, they will slowly disable the "legacy" model.

I have been through enough computing changes to believe this will indeed happen.