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If Microsoft were to go with an entirely "walled garden",
which insures future revenue growth, will developers
write Metro applications for an OS with a 7% market share ?
That's the question. They're more likely to write applications
for Windows 7, at 50.5%.

Why not? Microsoft dropped XP support when XP is 30% of the market.
Microsoft dropped Microsoft Flight Simulator when it was one of the best
consumer flight simulators out there and enjoyed a run that was longer
than Windows itself. They even killed MS Works that was a very
inexpensive productivity package that was one of the easiest ones to
use. Honestly Microsoft has a long history of taking something good and
trashing it. Why should now be any different?

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Bill
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