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If you wanted to start selling an application, then expecting people to have a developers license obtained via Visual Studio, would be expecting a lot. Someone isn't going to jump through that type...

I snipped a lot of what you asked.

I know that Win2Go requires a USB 3.0 drive and that there were only 2 such drives that were certified to be good enough to actually work. I would assume that...

Get a copy on a USB stick in a "Windows To Go" format. That is going to the be the slick way to try it out without doing all the work of installing and upgrading. Stick in a USB stick, boot to it,...

I would prefer you to say anti-Metro comments if you have a basis for saying them. Metro is not perfect by any means and the way we learn to make it work better is to better know how it works....

I've met one. Only one. I don't remember what the issue was.

I've met dozens who have griped about their iPhones, and a few who gripe about Android.

Windows 8 won't die and I am willing to bet that there will be substantially less negative consumer press about it than there was for Windows Vista. Windows 8 is too much like Windows 7 to fail.
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They might be late, but the market has changed. How many tablets and netbooks don't even have CD or disk drives anymore? How are people install software on their phones and these diskless devices?...

I think this is a short-term versus long-term type of decision and is also impacted by who your target audience is.

I think if you are targeting a consumer type application, you need to consider...

Can a C++ app be compiled down to IL code like C# and VB rather than all the way native? I should know this, but I don't.... :)

Ah. okay - if you agree that is a single topic, then I'll stop my off topics posting and let you carry on :)

My apologies.

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Guys - we have an entire forum here for Metro / Win 8 discussions. I suggest different topics be talked about in different threads. That way, it will be easier to follow the...