Indeed

dec·re·ment /ˈdekrəmənt/

Noun - A reduction or diminution.

Verb - Cause a discrete reduction in (a numerical quantity).

"I'm not the one eating shit. I just put it in the toilet, and whoever is starving for decrement on the other side of the sewage line, say people like you, are none of my concern."

Are we shit eaters or not? If we are "starving for decrement" we are starving for less shit and thus we are not shit eaters. I'm not trying to be a smart ass here I'm only trying to understand what you meant by the comment.

Uh, Apple essentially does it already and I don't seem many governments rushing to stop them.

Hey look, you replied. And here I was so willing to believe you we're ceasing to give a fuck about this thread. You just keep telling yourself that and maybe one day it'll come true. No one's eating shit, you however are talking about it a whole lot. And yet you replied to me... twice. You don't seem to be doing a good job of showing that I'm not worth replying to. And now for the fun part ladies and gentlemen. Proof time!

Here's me in win 8 downloading from GOG and Steam at the same time: http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/rr17/cormoran/win8dll_zpsa41e351c.jpg

As you can see I'm using start8, because unlike the strawman you built up of anyone with a differing opinion to yours being a microsoft fanboy I don't think microsoft did the best with their current OS. It has it's share of problems, but it doesn't do anyone any favours if people make problems up out of thin air. Show us a screencap of this message and maybe we'll start to get somewhere. You're real original yourself, mate. :)

I like to think he's a marvellously entertaining troll, because there's no way he could be a real person. I won't allow it!

Well, I wasn't expecting this from the topic title when I clicked on it.

So did the problem ever get fixed?

I will agree that reading this thread has been entertaining.

Hard to say, he didn't take my suggested about posting his issue in the gogdownloader help thread I linked him. Hard to give any help if he isn't providing technical information about the situation, and insulting people only results in sarcastic responses. Then again he burnt his bridges here a long time ago.

There isn't much I can do to help since I don't even have access to a windows 8 machine right now. JCD if you don't want to provide us with more information, then maybe your best bet is to contact support directly.

Now mind you, I am a "shit eater" still using Windows 7 and have no problem with it (and Steam) whatsoever. Is the status quo any different for the other shit eaters on this forum (using Win 8), or does the problem actually lie between the chair and the keyboard of the OP?

I think he has some kind of repressed homosexuality. At least that is what I gather from these two threads.

Better buy a box of tampons!

Apple:-Monopoly lawsuits lost:0
MS:-Monopoly lawsuits lost:... uh I can think of 5 off the top of my head theres likely more...

See when your tiny you can do things like that. When your huge the monopoly laws kick in and well... lets see last time MS was facing the very real risk of being broken up by the DOJ in the EU it's had fines in the billions handed to it!

Just cause apple can do it doesn't mean MS can.

Newell (and Notch and others) are not against what W8 is, but if this trend continues what W9 may become. The tragedy was the move towards a walled garden in the future if W8 passes through without any criticism or problems. It was a warning about a trend, nothing do about about any of w8's technicalities.

They already have, as I see e.g. ASUS selling Windows RT devices here that can obtain software only from the preinstalled store(s).

For OP: Windows 8 still has the legacy desktop mode which does not have the restriction. So as long as you switch to the legacy Win7-like desktop mode inside Win8, you can use GOG downloader, Steam etc. in there too, or install games obtained elsewhere.

Neither do they have desktop monopoly, or otherwise there would be no PCs running Linux, or desktop/laptop Macs either.

Times have changed from the 90s. Now "desktop PCs" are only one of the many options for people to do their computing and internetting, hence those old "MS has a computer monopoly!" claims are becoming less and less relevant, day by day.

A walled garden is just as lucrative to MS as it is to Apple and others. If they are still prevented from introducing it to "PCs", fine, then they might want to push more and more their Windows RT devices to replace the "old PCs" where they don't have complete control.

There's a reason why many people talk about "post-PC" computers.