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Ok, so Windows S is a Windows Chromebook.

I imagine we'll just continue to ignore that UWP and the Windows Store exist. Wake me up when full versions of Office and Visual Studio are built as UWP apps.




Difference is Chromebooks are fairly open hardware wise. Almost every model uses a Coreboot you can use alternative payloads on, so you can naively boot Linux, or run it under Crouton is a nearly no overhead environment. Some Chromebooks are bad eggs that never provide unlocks to their firmware, but most do.

Apple and Microsoft would never be that respectful of its users. The whole point of how draconian iOS and Windows RT 2.0 (aka 10 S) are is to strip user freedom to make more money.


Me too. Wake me up when Office and Visual Studio are built as DotNet UWP apps. Their codebase is still C with classes and C++ mixed, dating back to 1989/90.


C++ is also a UWP supported language, no need to go .NET for UWP apps.

Also they did announce that the next Office version will move to the store.




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