Good grief, that scam again?

It already has been explained to you that child abuse is not their mandate. Your "argument" is a common troll-tactic to "counter" someone's efforts:

"Oh, you're collecting money for the poor in the 3rd world? What about the religious persecution in your own country?"

It's a common attitude - because someone cares about an issue and you don't like this someone, it's an absolute monstrosity that he doesn't care about another (possibly even unrelated) issue as well.

Taking your argument to its ultimate conclusion, unless someone is willing to do something about every single issue on this planet he has failed in your eyes. All the while you're forgetting, that a person or an organization can only do so much in a 24 hour day.

Common tactic you're using here: The Whataboutism.

Well, let me put it this way: What kind of crap is Samsung shovelling out that the basic keyboard/mouse drivers which run on basically _anything else_ are able to render Samsung's hardware inoperable?

Plus: What kind of inept stunts is Samsung pulling that their drivers are automatically replaced?

Then again, given their track record with the developer's nightmare that is Tizen, this shouldn't surprise anyone. I mean, what is one supposed to think of a company who thought that an error message like "NAUGHTY PROGRAMMER!!! SPANK SPANK SPANK!!!" is a good idea? (Seriously: https://developer.tizen.org/de...)

I think it's more likely a question of: "Does such a move make us money in a non-negligible way?"

Porting Office to Linux would be most likely a zero-sum game - a PC which formerly ran Windows now runs Linux. The amount of Office installations remains the same.

Such a move only makes sense for a company if they're opening up new markets - and currently it's obviously not a big enough number.

Listen, I don't really care. The original argument was: "It's impossible to connect to live cams and shit!"

Somehow you made xbox controllers out of it, I don't really care and if I searched a bit more it would most likely turn out to be possible after all. Plus, Universal Apps are targetted at touchscreens on tablets and phones. If you really need to run an emulator or something, Win32 ist still available.

I'm not exactly sure how you think something like this is achieved on other mobile platforms which also will close apps not currently in the foreground at will.

https://developer.android.com/training/best-background.html

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/iPhone/Conceptual/iPhoneOSProgrammingGuide/BackgroundExecution/BackgroundExecution.html

Maybe you should research a bit before talking out of your ass?

Well, they do restrict THOSE specific ones because, for example, you don't access gamepads through the USB / HID namespace. You use Windows.Gaming.Input

They stated the reasons in the clear: "to prevent conflict with other Windows APIs" - you can access those just fine, you just have to use their specific namespaces and not the generic ones.

So? Register a background task which does exactly that. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-...

I have to ask: Did you actually look at what is possible?

Nope. You just need to use the Windows.Devices.HumanInterfaceDevice namespace and jump through some additional hoops.

Because that measuring device I was talking about? That's also not on their list. But I can use it regardless.

I don't think that there are a lot of Android programs out there which are permanently network connected even when their app is closed.

You also might to want to look into a thing called "background tasks". Those are executed in response to events (like incoming Voip calls) - but a background task that's permanently running and sucking data limit dry? Bad idea on a tablet / mobile.

Of course you can get that to work - you can access USB devices just fine through Universal Apps.

I'm currently doing that myself for a USB measuring device which is used for Physics lessons and can measure speeds, voltage, magnetic field strengths and so on. The vendor's program is written by engineers for engineers - and not so much suited for pupils. So I'm using the Vendor's API and implement a custom-tailored solution for every experiment the pupils have to do.

Of course it's a huge problem if Office runs on an OS other than Windows. That's why they ported Office to Android and iOS.

I'm not sure how useful an FTP server is for the intended target audience.

There's also a plastic hull to contend with. Plus, such a leak is not exactly "fails catastrophically". After all, we're not talking about strong acids or bases here - the most problematic would be the manganese due to its toxicity, it's a heavy metal after all. But as long as you don't eat that stuff, you won't have any problems.

Look at the ingredients - carbon, wet ammonium chloride and zinc chloride as electrolytes / electron conductors, zinc and mangan(IV)-oxide as the electrodes.

There are quite a lot of battery types out there which are much more nasty. This? This is something you can give your pupils to demonstrate how batteries work - it's that harmless.