1. You buy an iPad => You cannot install Android or Windows => No big deal.

2. You buy an Android tablet or a Chromebook => You cannot install iOS or Windows => No big deal.

3. You buy a Windows 8 tablet => You cannot install Android or iOS => All hell breaks lose.

Gotta love the Fucked Open Shit Shitters Foundation every time they do this. :D

But they should really change something, because are starting to get boring nowadays. :D

Lesson learned. You shouldn't buy Windows 8 tablets :D

The many faces of Open source addiction. Tsk tsk.
Third leading cause of death in the computer/electronic world, right behind DRM and Gabe Newell.

I wish I cared enough to learn about Linux. Then I too could complain about incompatibilities.

I hear dat's 'cuz Windows be trippin' overpowered so the man's gotta nerf 'im hard, son

...or that's what I heard back when that "Windows bundled with IE is cartel, deny deny!" hullabaloo was going on. Something about Microsoft being so prevalent that it's basically a monopoly.

This is why you have no credibility on such matters at least do some basic research before you post such obvious flamebait.

Google does not force the hardware manufacturer to prevent end users from installing whatever OS has appropriate drivers on Android devices. I'm less familiar with Chromebook, but I suspect that it's the same as doing so would be an antitrust violation. Google is already being investigated for much less forceful maneuvers. Rumor has it that it was an MS funded shell company, but I'm not sure I'm ready to buy into that without more information.

Apple handles the entire setup except for the manufacturing which is done to spec for Apple.

Only MS requires 3rd parties lock out other competitors from the tablet in order to receive full certification.

You really should provide a link when you bring shit like this up. But OSS people complain whenever there's a locked bootloader, which artificially keeps end users out of their own shit. And, for the record, they have bitched out Motorola and a number of other companies for the same fucking thing. You also might want to read up on hackintoshes and the like, you can install shit in other places, just because you don't want to doesn't mean it's correct for companies to put in artificial barriers to prevent it (though they're not under any obligation to help, building in technical limitations pisses off the kind of people you don't want to piss off, see Sony vs. fail0verflow).

So, your troll, it's factually incorrect.

What he's referring to is that MS is requiring tablets to be locked to Win 8 only in order to receive gold certification from MS.

As you put it, it's factually incorrect for the OP to suggest that it's analogous to those other situations as in none of those cases are 3rd parties being forced to lock down the device by the OS writer.

I'll hold back from making any snide comments about the OP as that's not really appropriate, even if it is well deserved.

Well, we're all a little insane at this tea party, KZ's insanity is just different than what I usually expect.

You haven't seen the My Anus in Bleeding cartoon then?

Windows, at least the DOS-based versions can be installed on iOS through an emulator, just for fun I've got a 3.1 on my touch.
But I get your point, at it does suck.

my spoon is too big :)

There is no spoon.

Also, this thread is now about ponies.

I find it funny that you specifically said ponies. Is that so that the thread can grow and turn into a horse, which then gets killed as the thread progresses, and which ultimately gets beaten? :P