lol nice try Uncle Sam, we all know how you launder money to lib colleges through student loans, why should I pretend to be surprised when they return the favor with phony studies, calling freedom the boogieman and only a central authority can save us....

Microsoft assaulted and insulted its developers by replacing Silverlight and WPF with the misbegotten hated bastard WinRT.

It has nothing to do with bad marketing. The Metro interface is actually unbelievably slick when you get used to it.

Oh, you mean we should have communism!

Microsoft didn't buy Windows from anyone, nor Office, Visual Studio, X-Box, etc. And nobody was prevented from doing any legitimate thing via the public API in any version of Windows. In fact, Microsoft often went out of its way to make its components scriptable by third parties. So whatever the hell are you talking about?

Remember what the big deal in the antitrust fiasco was? That's right, shipping a web browser with the OS, which every mobile and desktop OS now does! What a bunch of hypocrites, no wonder every Microsoft hater's post sounds like a child looking into a window and knowing nothing about what's really going on inside.

You mean the sheer stupidity of the United States Federal Government.

Bitcoin, as he alludes, is really a form of barter and not currency. Unlike currency, it is not very liquid. Having a million dollars in Bitcoin can't be converted in one fell swoop to dollars.

Maybe something didn't click in your head... Bitcoin is a currency. Dollars are just the middlemen here. If you earn Bitcoin and spend Bitcoin, where do dollars enter the picture?

Oh, but they sure do talk a good game!

Gee, a common code base between mobile and desktop? Too bad the shitheads at Microsoft weren't in this right frame of mind when they created the abomination known as WinRT. Have you tried sharing .NET code between WP8 and the desktop? It's almost impossible.

Who are you? Parents have a natural right to raise their kids however they damn well please and I'm pretty sure you have your own superstitions you'd like to cram between their ears. Germany has an anti-homeschooling law, and guess when it was imposed? During Hitler's reign. When the government teaches the children, the government makes itself a god in their eyes. Just look at the fruition of this, all the doe-eyed fools worshipping Obama even as he strips their freedom and eats out their sustenance.

Barack Obama and his radical socialists, hard at work impoverishing you in everything that counts while you're distracted with Trayvon Martin and whatever race-baiting bullshit he shoves out the door. You get gay marriage but can't start a company or find a job. Healthcare is suddenly free but nobody can afford it. And you all think this is awesome?

Capitalism makes it someone else's opportunity.

A lot of you don't seem like Windows developers, and you're on the outside looking in on this issue. You won't learn anything about WinRT's failure by analyzing Microsoft's marketing.

WinRT became persona non grata in 2011 when Microsoft scared its WPF and Silverlight developers into thinking .NET would be shitcanned to appease the C++ fools, and that everyone would have to use disgusting HTML5 and JavaScript to develop mobile apps in the future. Understandably, they fled in large numbers and Microsoft doubled down on its foolishness, doing nothing until Build 2011 to even rectify the issue. Worse yet, even after the fact, WinRT has no real .NET code compatibility with the desktop, so you have to fork your code base and cannot leverage jack shit. This is the real reason you do not and will never see apps for the platform. They should have had Ballmer's HEAD for this.

Windows 8.* is a non-starter because Microsoft took upon itself to give its rabid WPF/Silverlight developers the finger with this abomination called WinRT. Now nobody is carrying Steve Ballmer's water on the mobile platform and mobile was the whole reason for the new Metro design.