Until next version of windows when it's completely locked down. Look, if you're Microsoft & you want to own the entire platform like Apple, you can't just lock it down from day 1. You need to slowly "educate" the users and measure how much resistance there is to a gradual tightening of restrictions. You do things like lower the price to increase adoption. In another 10 years it might be completely normal, just like it's normal for people to post personal stuff on facebook.
>Until next version of windows when it's completely locked down.
Excuse me while I go pick up my eyes that rolled across the office floor.
Please. This sort of slippery slope fearmongering belongs in a Gutmann article, not a HN comment. It's BS when someone says it about Apple, and it's BS when someone says it about Microsoft. There will always be a need for general purpose computers that can run anything.
