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Agreed on rest of the points, but Windows 8 on ARM is more like Windows Phone in the sense that you can't ship an ARM based system like you can with x86. You need a special license, there will be no OEM or user installable versions of Windows 8 ARM.


Based on this you could make a case about this being an antitrust violation as they are tying one product (which is a monopoly in one arena) to another product in an arena which isn't a monopoly.


What about MSDN? I suspect it will be on there as likely the only legal way for a user to install it.


Why would it need to be available on MSDN? Windows Phone ROMs are not on there. There will be emulators for developers.




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