<story><title>The Next Twenty Years: What Windows 8&apos;s Closed Distribution Means for Developers</title><url>http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/179420/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>programminggeek</author><text>I wonder if MSFT will stop supporting SDK&apos;s that don&apos;t run through their store long term. At some point will you only be able to write things that run on Windows that go through the Windows store? It looks like Win RT is going to go that route. I think it will be hard for MSFT to totally shut that down on mainline Windows for a while, but longer term it might all look a lot like walled garden distribution across all Windows.&lt;p&gt;I imagine that MSFT will have some kind of enterprise program where you can run your own Windows Store Server to do enterprise deploys of Metro apps.&lt;p&gt;Either way, it looks like Linux might end up the one place where you can install and run your own software over the long haul.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Next Twenty Years: What Windows 8&apos;s Closed Distribution Means for Developers</title><url>http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/179420/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>apetrovic</author><text>I don&apos;t get it.&lt;p&gt;Everyone is gushing about the post-pc era, Eric Schmidt announced a few days ago that Microsoft is irrelevant, and the article takes for granted that Microsoft and PC as we know it will survive for next 20 years, and Windows will be dominant platform on PC?&lt;p&gt;If history teach us anything, it&apos;s that there&apos;s always some solution for the problem. If Windows 8 marketplace turns to be too restrictive, game developers will turn to Steam on Linux. And with enough gamers on Linux, Asus or Gigabyte will not be pressed to make only &quot;compatible with Windows 8&quot; UEFI-locked motherboards.&lt;p&gt;Or the consumers (and the gamers) will find Win8 marketplace acceptable. Or maybe in five or ten years some other player will sweep the market.&lt;p&gt;Looking at the current technology and lamenting about the end of the world is just plain stupid.</text></comment>