I was just reading this article and thought here they go again. Trying to figure out how to squeeze a little more money out of the customers and lock them into a particular environment. Apple does this with their closed system and now Micro$oft is basically doing the same thing. Both companies reek of greed in their respective fields. Not that they do not make good products, which they do, but trying to lock everyone into their systems is just greedy. I don't want to give anybody any ideas, but it is almost the same as buying a car and after a certain period time the car manufacturer will eventually send out a software update to disable your car because your model is not compatible with their new systems or they deem it too much trouble to keep making them work. Thank goodness there are open source alternatives. My hat is off to those developers who put in a lot of time, sweat, blood and tears into softwear offerings so we do not have to be tied into offerings from only one source.
Cheers