Thread: Windows 8: Microsoft confirms the presence of an App Store

Via his blog Building 8 Windows,Microsoft confirms the presence of an App Store in its new operatingsystem. It is in a ticket with the team working on Windows StevenSinofsky revealed that eight different working groups (35 in total,25 to 40 people each), including one on an App Store, a store that isonline applications.

This news is not really surprisinggiven that many Windows 8 target devices including tablets, onlinestores are acclaimed by their owners.

If its integration into Windows 8 isalmost official, hard to know what the App Store just reserveMicrosoft users in terms of both content and technology development,or payment.
The following working groups:
• App Store
• Applications andMedia Experience
• Experience App
• Evolved CoreExperience
• Device Connectivity
• Networking Devices &Experience
• Ecosystem Fundamentals
• Desktop Engineer
•System Engineering
• Enterprise Networking
• GlobalExperience
• Graphics Platform
• Hardware DeveloperExperience
• Human Interaction Platform
• Hyper-V