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by Ntrails 4951 days ago
Long rationalisations are not easily conveyed to a public which is used to one liners.

"You can no longer install games on windows 8 except through the windows store."

vs

"Some versions of windows 8, which come under the bracket of windows RT but will still be referred to as windows 8, will not allow you to load specific metro apps without buying them through the windows store, but desktop programs will be run and installed as normal. The famous people in the news complaining about Microsoft locking down windows are wrong."

Full disclosure: I could be wrong in the exact details of the second statement, it's just what I've gleaned thus far from reading comments about it.