Life In 19x19

Of course you are right, but those application bundles were still provided by microsoft and ended up on most consumer pcs. But like someone mentioned with all those app stores, nowadays people have easy access to a big variety of games, so preinstalled probably don't matter much anymore. Still would ...

I'm sure - like me - some of you read somewhere before that Bill Gates was an avid go-player when he was younger. So I always wondered why is go not a preinstalled game on windows operating sytems like chess is for ages? It can't be too much trouble for a big company like MS to program a small go ...