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Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account (www.theverge.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What advantage embedded windows gave to a manufacturer for it to be worth paying license fee for? I kinda feel this part is difficult for Microsoft to compete at

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

It was because developers historically were familiar with Windows and would just default to making a Windows product. You want a POS interface? Your developer is probably going to hand you a .exe and not a .deb. Then your next move is to tell the hardware division to put that .exe into production systems, at which it is too late for the hardware division to argue you just chose the more expensive option without thinking.

This is changing, particularly as many platforms make it trivial to compile for different OSes.