Leaked MS Presentation Shows App Store Plans For Windows 8

FrankNFurter sends word of an internal Microsoft presentation leaked online today that contains details about Windows 8. The slides mention support for 3-D displays, connectivity upgrades, rapid startup times, and an integrated application store. Quoting Neowin: "Consumers will be able to search on the web or locally on a Windows 8 machine to access applications from the store. Microsoft also details plans for application developers to help reach millions of users. One of the goals is to ensure licensing and monetization for developers is flexible with a transparent on-boarding process. It's clear that the 'Windows Store' will be a software service Microsoft provides and hosts fully in the cloud. The company will likely build the distribution model on Windows Azure to lure application developers."

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Re:Just hilarious

[Jurily]

Yes, but Apple's products are shiny.

I realize you're joking, but Win7 is shiny too, at least compared to free alternatives. After using all sorts of OSes over the last couple of years including Gentoo, Ubuntu, FreeBSD and Vista, 7 was nice. After Vista, I didn't expect much, but there's all sorts of tiny little things you run into that made me think "Hey, it works!".

The biggest example was probably how they handle multiple size screens on an extended desktop: click through the dialog once, and it remembers. The next time you connect that particular screen, you get your nice big desktop back. The Linux equivalent is a full workday worth of xorg research, and God help you if you want two different profiles (like laptop+big screen and laptop+projector).