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This is a blessing in disguise.

Now more people will be motivated to migrate AWAY from Windows since they will have no bypass.



"Now more people…."

Yes, some will but unfortunately in actual per capita/percentage terms it'll be pathetically small.

Do you really think the marketers, economists and social scientists at Microsoft haven't got that figure off to a tee aready?

It's a certainty they have and they've figured it just amounts to noise in the grand schema of things.

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It's often a mistake to think that companies are these perfect union of ultra rational agents, just because they have a lot of employees and money.

See: Windows 8, Windows Phone.




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