>Perhaps there's a better term for APIs you can technically call but will get your app kicked out of the store for TOS violation?
So, first you make a claim about "since the early days of windows" OS APIs useful to others have been hidden that apparently only MS applications get to use. Yet you have failed to point out a single shipping microsoft application that benefited from those APIs or even actually mentioned what those APIs are or what they do. And now you're talking about some fringe windows 8 RT app store restrictions. Windows history spans from 1985 to 2013. Surely you should have hundreds of thousands of examples that you can google?
> Anyway, I only brought it up to highlight that there are some things Microsoft has decided we can't use for whatever reason.
Sorry. I still have no clue what are you talking about. Internal OS DLLs contain the implementation of the OS itself. Applications run on TOP of the OS. They don't re-invent what the OS already does.
I strongly suspect you're attempting to construct a non-technical argument about a purely technical topic. Anyway, I doubt you're going to present any evidence.. So, goodbye.
So, first you make a claim about "since the early days of windows" OS APIs useful to others have been hidden that apparently only MS applications get to use. Yet you have failed to point out a single shipping microsoft application that benefited from those APIs or even actually mentioned what those APIs are or what they do. And now you're talking about some fringe windows 8 RT app store restrictions. Windows history spans from 1985 to 2013. Surely you should have hundreds of thousands of examples that you can google?
> Anyway, I only brought it up to highlight that there are some things Microsoft has decided we can't use for whatever reason.
Sorry. I still have no clue what are you talking about. Internal OS DLLs contain the implementation of the OS itself. Applications run on TOP of the OS. They don't re-invent what the OS already does.
I strongly suspect you're attempting to construct a non-technical argument about a purely technical topic. Anyway, I doubt you're going to present any evidence.. So, goodbye.