Reason I say that is if you take Metro away what are the issues.
I know anybody who knows how to use a mouse is pretty much of the WTF metro GTFO and that is understandable, but removing that aspect there is nothing realy upsetting that wasn't there before hand. Yes I know developing on microsoft API's (exspecialy anything associated with IE) has been a complete nightmare for many in the past including myself with many a fix being lamented as fixed in the next release only to find the next release entails you having to change other aspects as they are nolonger supported. Thats true with anything were you touch a API outside your control, at least potentualy in one way or another.
If anything by not officialy certifying minecraft for win8 is doing no harm at all for microsoft as it probably runs fine as is and with the processing power nowadays HTML5 becomes more and more appealing to many as apposed to going native.
Is he right to make a stand, yes, it is his right and has to be respected, especialy as he is able to. But personaly the more I look into win8 and metro aside I'm liking it for what it is, there again I'm the sick puppy who preferes vista over win7 and i'm sure no metro fan, but having explorer or an alternative desktop option is not going to be too hard.
Also worth noting that it will be hard to garner true win8 sales once its released as Microsoft have done alot of write off's last quarter (pulling some early like write off of the cost of pressing windows 8 and other gems) so the win8 release quarter can only look better however it does. This with the cheap upgrade and less messing with versions (mini, lite, almost, profesional and ultra or whatever they were). So for many it will be a fiscal no brainer, especialy all those XP installs becoming less supported (unless your a new intel chipset that support XP over Vista, bless).
Maybe Microsft will install a desktop chosser akin to the browser selection, at least that would plicate alot if they had a clear cut choice.
But anything that runs on a closed source OS in any form is gong to be limited, its if those limitations actualy matter that to what your doing is what realy counts and whilst I applaud Notch's stand I do wonder if later on he find some toys missing that needn't of fallen. Especialy when the certification process for a xbox is alot more stringant than any flavour of desktop OS.
Reason I say that is if you take Metro away what are the issues.
I know anybody who knows how to use a mouse is pretty much of the WTF metro GTFO and that is understandable, but removing that aspect there is nothing realy upsetting that wasn't there before hand. Yes I know developing on microsoft API's (exspecialy anything associated with IE) has been a complete nightmare for many in the past including myself with many a fix being lamented as fixed in the next release only to find the next release entails you having to change other aspects as they are nolonger supported. Thats true with anything were you touch a API outside your control, at least potentualy in one way or another.
If anything by not officialy certifying minecraft for win8 is doing no harm at all for microsoft as it probably runs fine as is and with the processing power nowadays HTML5 becomes more and more appealing to many as apposed to going native.
Is he right to make a stand, yes, it is his right and has to be respected, especialy as he is able to. But personaly the more I look into win8 and metro aside I'm liking it for what it is, there again I'm the sick puppy who preferes vista over win7 and i'm sure no metro fan, but having explorer or an alternative desktop option is not going to be too hard.
Also worth noting that it will be hard to garner true win8 sales once its released as Microsoft have done alot of write off's last quarter (pulling some early like write off of the cost of pressing windows 8 and other gems) so the win8 release quarter can only look better however it does. This with the cheap upgrade and less messing with versions (mini, lite, almost, profesional and ultra or whatever they were). So for many it will be a fiscal no brainer, especialy all those XP installs becoming less supported (unless your a new intel chipset that support XP over Vista, bless).
Maybe Microsft will install a desktop chosser akin to the browser selection, at least that would plicate alot if they had a clear cut choice.
But anything that runs on a closed source OS in any form is gong to be limited, its if those limitations actualy matter that to what your doing is what realy counts and whilst I applaud Notch's stand I do wonder if later on he find some toys missing that needn't of fallen. Especialy when the certification process for a xbox is alot more stringant than any flavour of desktop OS.