[Charles H. (The_r0nin)]

From all I've read, yes. They want the functional equivalent of the iPad and App Store.

Dude... that's totally false. The Surface RT might have those restrictions (since it is an ARM powered Ipad competitor), but the Pro is running "desktop" Windows 8 (i.e. Windows 8 Pro). It'll have every capability of a normal Windows machine, including installing whatever you want from wherever.

I understand you don't like Microsoft, but that's no excuse to just make things up...

[antiRepublicrat]

Dude... that's totally false. The Surface RT might have those restrictions

What a coincidence, RT is what we were talking about.

I understand you don't like Microsoft, but that's no excuse to just make things up

I like products, or not, and Microsoft has made some good products and bad ones. Look back through the posts, you'll find comments positive to Microsoft. If you go further back you'll see some bitching about Apple, too.