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Microsoft has allowed third parties to customise windows by feeling it with crap slowing down the system. It is ridiculous seeing all these processes running and bogging down the os. Microsoft choosing to limit such support is on beneficiary to the users and not he corporations that have partnerships with the likes of Symantec and other companies for royalties.
Metro is a no go ine for these companies. They are finally stepping down in the desktop space/ tablet space (metro) by not allowing significant changes while allowing the the freedom to screw the customer over with the traditional desktop
