<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>cpursley</author><text>This is actually quite an impressive update.&lt;p&gt;People like to dismiss MS, but they really understand iterative development.</text></comment>