Sinofsky on OEM and App Stores

The experience of dealing with OEMs, the cost of testing their OS with every piece of hardware under the sun, then watching the Mac guy vs Windows/PC guy ads must have contributed to Microsoft making their own hardware. And trying to create an App Store for Windows.

Interesting that the thread did not include any mention of Microsoft’s licensing terms for OEMs charging per computer, even if it wasn’t shipped with Windows, which was viewed as a monopolistic practice.

This is a great article, I do wish he put it on his blog instead of piecemealed it on twitter, but I guess you go to move to your audience.

The experience of buying a new PC is still pretty broken even for $2000+ machines.

OEMs still regularly load tons of garbage, and microsoft is also now guilty of adding craplets on to the base image of Windows.

Sinofsky is trying to draw an analogy between the windows oem situation and the developer, app storesituation where none exists.

He spent all this text describing how bad oems were and simply equated windows oems to iOS developers in the end, for his fair accompli. Shoddy article all around.