You can get your license upgraded to "pro" which in turn comes with free upgrade option to 7.

It's not advertised but it's there.

You could also just grab the OEM code from your old machine and see if that would work as well if you have one.

Do share, since when did any developer have to make a deal with microsoft to develop for windows?

I'm genuinely intrigued as to what kind of anti-MS bubble one must live in to believe such drivel.

Not really. It's not really even working on being one yet. It's mainly apple style app store.

Steam on the other hand is a full on distribution system for full featured software. That's quite a bit different. But pretty much everyone expects that one MS graduates from "must copy apple" suicidal rush, it will remember that its strength lies in full featured software and that's when steam's days on windows are numbered.

UI is sorta kinda optimized for touch. It's pretty bad for mouse and utter junk for controllers.

MS doesn't care. Take a look at massive destruction of windows that was windows 8. They genuinely appear to not care and believe that people like you are acceptable losses in their war for mobile space.

No, the GP is right. MS didn't have a "deal" with Valve. Valve simply did what many others did - used MS OS as platform for their store.

Now MS opened a store of their own, that isn't in direct competition with Valve YET but is clearly headed in that general direction, and Valve execs can read the writing on the wall. So their only option is to make themselves independent of MS platform and push their customers off it ASAP, preferably before MS's own store becomes acceptable for its customers.

Valve isn't new to this kind of bait and switch aimed at customers either. It pretty much forced original steam as "updating system for counter strike" back when it started steam for example. So this is basically two evil giants duking it out while customer will once again be the one bearing the brunt of the damage.

I'm more confused by the fact that they made it run only RT applications instead of full on desktop x86.

Well, I understand the marketing. They all but slaughtered their desktop OS to get people make software for their shitty phone OS.

Makes me wonder if we'll see x86 windows desktop hacks on XBone soon.

That's like featherweight champion telling Tyson in his prime he could kick his ass in the ring. It's not a very smart move. Especially considering that South Korea is far more reliant on exports to EU than vice versa due to economic structure of each country.

What we'll likely (not) see, but what will happen behind the closed doors is diplomatic wrangling with some member states to put pressure on European Commission. Impact of such action would be far more limited on both ends, and will give South Korean government a pretense to give Samsung that "we tried our best".

For those who don't know, large conglomerates like Samsung are basically a state within state in South Korea and they have immense power in government actions. But not so much as to sink the country in a severe diplomatic and economic row with one of the most if not the most important trading partner.

No, but reality is that military has, throughout human history, been a driver of new technologies.

If military is embracing linux as essentially client/desktop OS, it's a good thing for those who want linux as a viable desktop alternative, and some technological inventions and innovations are likely to find their way into civilian use soon enough.

And in the end, it wouldn't really matter for those killed if they were killed by a ship running linux, windows or macOS, like it doesn't matter to them if the ships are built of steel or carbon fiber, like it doesn't matter to them if missiles use solid or liquid fuel and so on. Because in the end, it's people that kill people. Tools are innocent.

I was talking about EU countries, which typically have that.

Because they have a vested interest in you staying healthy. That is not infecting other workers and being as productive as possible. It makes financial sense to sponsor better and faster access to health care because losses from having worker not have health care of have access to health care gated by long queues would cause more losses.

Many EU countries have similar system, where you have a state system, and employer can sponsor their workers to get into private clinic that specializes in work place related sickness only as opposed to general practitioner who handles everything (including everything else for said worker).

Not really. Keep it behind safe firewall and OS itself is unlikely to become a vector.

At which point other vectors become important. One of them being web browser. Which google is going to keep up to date.

Issue is, this guy is openly gay and has a partner. He is also in a country that doesn't like NSA very much right now. It's much more difficult to frame someone who's like that than someone who is single, visits a country bought and paid for and actually has sex with people he doesn't know very well.

I stand corrected.

In other news, pants are worn on the head.