>It's also very easy to embed Internet Explorer in things
Words Cross-Platform hint at this not being an option, nevermind IE's blatant disregard of standards.

>That's what application-level streaming software is for.
Is it now? Tell that to people on 9fans - they like to laugh at stupid arguments like that.

Can't wait till they make a movie about differently shaped blocks falling from the sky.

Microsoft is using Napoleon's tactic of dividing and conquering. Obviously the only way out for vendors is to unite and fight Microsoft's extortion attempts with their joint patent pool.

Only Nokia.

Well, it appears you are not the only one who can't read dutch

No it doesn't. Like OpenCL, CUDA basically means you're sending instructions to the GPU by writing data to a mapped memory region. Sharing address space is not possible at that level. It's only possible to do at a CPU level.

Well, gladly, today they are not. The previous administration was all about that crap. I take it this guy is a fan who only sees what he wants to see.

As long as there is a known minimum, yes. But when you have an open platform that minimum is not known. You just have to make a guess as to what will be the common configuration 2 years after you started working on a game.

Bear in mind, that customization of the UI has nothing to do with the openness of a hardware platform.
As for the upgrades: of course they improved your experience. That's why they are called upgrades afterall. The point is, however, that because everyone has a different platform, the developers do not have common denominators. What works acceptably on one configuration doesn't work as well on another configuration, and to improve the experience one has to upgrade.

Why would you want to add more ram or a new processor? You think it would improve your experience of using a tablet, right? In truth the openness of the PC actually hurts experience. Because everyone is making something different, developers don't have a platform to target. You install Windows 7 only to discover that your computer slows down considerably in comparison to windows xp. You install a game and find out later that in order for it to not lag you need to upgrade. A developer is forced to make different settings for a PC game, because they don't know what the user has and the user is in turn forced to know how to configure the game to work best on their PC. That's not improving the experience, that's making it worse.

Hint: There is no money in making free art.

It also temporarily stores all the data it's transmitting.