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Windows 8 with App store

Posted: 28 Aug 2011, 18:18
by viking60
ImageBig news for Windows 8

Confirming months of rumors, an app store, much like Apple's App Store for OS X, has officially been listed among the features Microsoft is working to include in Windows 8. The revelation came last week from Microsoft President Steven Sinofsky in a Building Windows 8 blog titled, "Introducing the team." Among a list of teams associated with building the forthcoming operating system was, you guessed it, "App Store." Read up on all the details here.

Here is a list over teams including the App store team:
* App Compatibility and Device Compatibility
* App Store
* Applications and Media Experience
* App Experience
* Core Experience Evolved
* Device Connectivity
* Devices & Networking Experience
* Ecosystem Fundamentals
* Engineer Desktop
* Engineering System
* Enterprise Networking
* Global Experience
* Graphics Platform
* Hardware Developer Experience
* Human Interaction Platform
* Hyper-V
* In Control of Your PC
* Kernel Platform
* Licensing and Deployment
* Media Platform
* Networking Core
* Performance
* Presentation and Composition
* Reliability, Security, and Privacy
* Runtime Experience
* Search, View, and Command
* Security & Identity
* Storage & Files Systems
* Sustained Engineering
* Telemetry
* User-Centered Experience
* Windows Online
* Windows Update
* Wireless and Networking services
* XAML

Well they need to do something if the want to keep up with Apple. What they have been doing so far has not been that successful.