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I seriously doubt that this will happen anytime soon. One reason why Windows has grown so big is compatibility with its predecessors. That will not change. I do not see any difference in desktop behaviour at all when I run them in Windows 8. Often I even forget that I run Windows 8.

Here's how I'm reading what MS's position is:

iStore envy. 

 

Step one, start removing the ability to run older programs on the desktop.  While you are doing that, institute your own app store that can run the future apps.  They don't have to be great in the beginning, they just need to get a foot in the door.  Take Eve online.  The producers over at CCP didn't make their Dust 514 game compatible with the Xbox because of MS's restrictions with their servers (Xbox's private cloud so to speak).  So it had to be PS3 only.

Once you do that, you can get rid of backwards compatibility.  Windows would be able to check to see if what you are trying to run is a legit MSstore app and if not, shuts it down.  You load up windows and it checks via the internet that you didn't try to mod it or jailbreak it. 

See right now, MS gets zero from poser sales.  Zero from Renderosity sales.  Zero from steam sales (hense steam looking to migrate to Linux).  Money is a prime motivator in life and MS wants more.  Locking down what you can run on your PC to being only things you can get via their store (the apps will get better, no doubt about that), is one way to assure you are going to get more money.  Windows is 80%-85% of the marketplace, once the iStore went up, the greed kicked in.

MS is just being methodical and slow about it.

WARK!

Thus Spoketh Winterclaw: a blog about a Winterclaw who speaks from time to time.

 

(using Poser Pro 2014 SR3, on 64 bit Win 7, poser units are inches.)