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As a user, I'm not the slightest bit interested in Marketplace. I don't want to buy my software in a manner that gives the seller the ability to change my device without my permission. The current system is fine. I buy a product and you send me a product key. I save the installation file and key and can always reinstall the product after a hard reset or on my next device. Even if you go out of business, I have the software I paid for.
Under this new system, you want to delete the .cab after the install? No thanks. A couple of software companies are having a legal battle and you're going to just come in and uninstall my software? No thanks.
When are consumers going to learn that, when you buy something that requires a company's intervention to use (e.g. DRM), you will eventually lose the product you bought. What are you going to do about your hundreds of dollars of WM software in two years when MS decides that this Marketplace idea isn't really working for them and shuts down the system? You're going to lose your money, that's what.
If I wanted a big corportation to have total control of my device, I'd get an iPhone.
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