<story><title>Windows 8.1 Preview</title><url>http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/preview</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zmmmmm</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s interesting to see Microsoft unashamedly exercising what&amp;#x27;s left of their monopoly power to force market share of unrelated products up. Defaulting storage to SkyDrive, integrating Bing as a default search every time someone does any kind of search, even tying the windows login itself to a microsoft account, integrating Skype as a default installed app and giving &lt;i&gt;no opt out&lt;/i&gt; once you accept linking your Windows login. I notice they&amp;#x27;ve made it extremely difficult to set Google as your default search engine in IE (no default search provider for it, can be quite hard to find in the search provider list).&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s the kind of thing that used to get them in a lot of trouble. I wonder if they are past this or whether they will get rapped on the knuckles for this at some point?</text></comment>
<story><title>Windows 8.1 Preview</title><url>http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/preview</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tiles</author><text>&amp;quot;SkyDrive is now the default location for saving documents. So you always have your files wherever you go, even when you’re offline. And with the included SkyDrive app, you can manage both local files and SkyDrive files in one place.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This is a massive play for cloud storage. Will this be replacing &amp;quot;My Documents&amp;quot; for the majority of casual Windows users?</text></comment>