It's like they're begging for name mutilation by the angry masses.

I take offense at that! ~ Prof. A. Gnat PHD

I know. But really, Why?

I see this happening. What's the difference between this and Apples App store? With apple as a precidence, MS can move forward and create a version of the xbox hardware (read lite version) that's cheaper and more compact, that eschews the drive....

Let me back this up. I worked for a dotcom in the early '00s and inherited some javascript code from a web developer that left abruptly. It took me 36 hours of straight working AT THE OFFICE to understand the convolution he had written that was a VERY important part of a web tool we published. I was so frustrated that I shouted at an upper managment type during a meeting. I was laid off in the next round of bleeding circa dot com implosion 2002.