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Microsoft Working On Its Own App Store

Posted by timothy on from the goes-around-comes-around dept.

CWmike writes "Microsoft is working on a software distribution scheme along the lines of Apple's iPhone App Store, CEO Steve Ballmer said yesterday at a developer's conference in Sydney, Australia. 'There's not much money being made, but the general concept of giving developers a way not only to get their code distributed, but to really get visibility for the code, is a good idea,' Ballmer said. Ballmer hinted that something similar would be coming soon from Microsoft. While he said Micrsoft was not ready to detail the works in progress, he said '... fear not, we're hard at work, and you'll see some of the benefits [of that] with some of the concepts, particularly Facebook's.'"

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  1. Re:The MS hate on Slashdot is hilarious by Foofoobar · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Use it all the time. Never once has it supplied the source code for me. And maybe Windows should check dependencies; then they wouldn't have so many crappy and broken apps.

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  2. Re:The MS hate on Slashdot is hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Fuck off.