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Windows 8 App Store Screenshots
syngularyx writes "The screenshots show Microsoft's new application store for Windows. The store appears to be running in Windows 7, hinting that the software giant may also be planning to offer its app store for legacy versions of Windows. Cnbeta posted the screenshots on Monday, however WinRumors is unable to confirm their authenticity at this time. The screenshots appear to show a number of Microsoft's own software, including third party software from Opera and Mozilla."
This is a big deal? Whoopty freaking do.
This is just Microsoft once again showing up late to the party.
I don't know what it is with MS design but they just love mixing GUI metaphors on screens. Trees, icons, buttons, text.
The worst part is that this is supposed to be a marketplace.
Lose the cruft, just show me the apps in boxes, I click on them to buy them. Give me some filtering at the top or bottom and that's it! Done! I want to spend as little time fucking around in some virtual space to get programs I want.
Hell, just make the app store look like ThePirateBay: Oh look, the name of the thing I want *click* *buy*
How does this application, running on Windows 7, hint at running on legacy versions of Windows?
If it was running on Windows XP, then I'd agree. Who writes this stuff?
Looks Interesting lets see if it will increase windows popularity over these boards
Someone has some taste at Redmond at least....
Personally if I could I would mod you down for not having the courage to post that as a real user. All AC's making meta complaints should be automatically modded down to oblivion, no matter how worthy the cause.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Where are the WAREZ?
I'm pretty sure it's real. It makes a ton of sense to have an App Store. If you think about it Linux has had an "app store" for the PC long before Apple with repos that you could pull many applications, the concept has even been guified to some extent over the years...
I was expecting Windows to have an App Store about a half a year to a year after the iPhone App Store. I really wonder why there has been such a huge delay in implementing this concept.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Note: "Windows 8 App Store" in the title, and "Windows 8" in the article. The speculation is that the app store is planned for Win 8, which would make a Win 7 variant "legacy".
Not saying the speculation is right, but before snarking, one should probably confirm they've understood what they're reading.
In related news, WinRumors reports that even they couldn't find anyone who cares anymore.
iRumors reports that dull is the new shiny.
AndRumors reports that root is the end of all evils.
cheers,
Jump onto the bandwagon a few years late, as usual. No doubt that it will get well stocked, much faster than any other desktop platform.
I didn't know if this was for the computer OS or the phone, since they are both at version 7 now, and presumably will progress to version 8. At lease until I clicked on the link.
Of course I was then confused about how a screen shot of the current OS means that there will be support for legacy OS's since the last time I checked, Win8 was not released.
Frankly I closed the tab I opened up TFA in, as it appears that they don't even know where the image came from. At least that's what I got out of looking at it for all of 3 seconds.
Maybe they should have called it something else other than App Store. That isn't very catchy and I don't plan on using it anyway. I use mostly open source on my desktop with Windows and obviously open source with Ubuntu
Am I the only one who remembers the Windows Catalog in XP?
Furries make the internet go.
please include a native "win-get" command from the console so that 400 clicks aren't required for installing.
just a suggestion that will never happen kthx.
'nuff said
Linspire, aka Lindows, had click'n'run, which is just like todays app stores.. There were even downloading services for game consoles in the 1980s, way before WiiWare and other modern DLC services.
Kids; my lawn.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/11/windows-app-store/
(With all that investment in Microsoft Research, why does Microsoft copy others, particularly Apple, so much???)
"We need another browser in the app store shot to show that we're open now." ....ok
OK, I'll put a firefox logo in there.
"Hmm... perhaps not Firefox"
OK, I'll use Chrome logo.
"Hmm... let's not use Chrome"
Uhh... Safari?
"No. Hey, what about Opera? People will appreciate that."
You mean the browser with less market share than Netscape 4*?
*this may be untrue.
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hinting that the software giant may also be planning to offer its app store for legacy versions of Windows.
Here's a dilemma for MS... given a guy with a warez version of windows, do you let them app store it or not... Justification for no, is you just wanna make life more difficult for unlicensed windows installs. Justification of yes, is here's a guy who wants to give you a fat stack of bills for a bunch of 1s and 0s, so take it while you can get it....
I've, uh, heard from friends, that apple accepts money in the itunes music store from OSX pirates. But MS has a cultural love of making users jump thru windoze activation foolishness.
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
what a sad thought
so that's good news, despite that it (the ice ) could have been more considerate & waited until we stopped poisoning the previously thawed ice, so as not to interfere with it's own potential usefulness, & deprive us of our just desert?
as for fuddles' gottiesque softwar regime; never useful. always deceptive, destructive & aggressive, fatal to unchosen cos.. same pr firm as us.gov?
This is a brilliant idea. How does MS do it, one good idea right after another.!
Seriously, Ubuntu has had an 'app store' for ages. Was a brilliant idea. Now apple's getting into the game, and Microsoft might step in.
Why now? Seriously? Given how popular 'one stop get everything' services are... why hasn't someone had this idea a few years earlier?
2011 the year of the app store.
windows 7 does have an app store, but they just don't call it an app store. It's called the 'marketplace'.
I thought that was on the phone though. We are talking desktop here. It's really a different thing, in part because it's not the only channel to get software as it is on the device, but more a matter of convenience for users.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
The Borg, Star Trek and the vision contained within are just as relevent as they ever were.
Bill Gates is still the "figurehead" of M$ and always will be, long after death.
And last, but not least, we all WANT it really, so I think we've left it there as a reminder of things to come - Star Trek-type travels, and possibly even the ultimate evolution of biotech and networking - the Borg.
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Sorry to be a hater, but I hate everything about the way Windows looks ... just looks like overall bad design to me. I hate the colors they choose, looks like greasy green glass, I hate the thick borders and handles on the windows. I hate the wide-ass Fisher Price minimize and close buttons. I hate the fonts and I hate the way they tile their icons.
the Borg reference is just not relevant or current these days.
Seems to me that after buying ISO and the rent-seeking patent trolling they've been up to lately, it's just as relevant as ever.
The soylentnews experiment has been a dismal failure.
too late
much like the Borg at the end of Star Trek: Voyager's run, Microsoft has become a giant impotent joke, but you really still don't want to get on their bad side.
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
I will give kudos to Microsoft for trying to fix what I consider a big hole in their OS with an app store. I just hope that the app store also includes an update manager for all applications and drivers downloaded using the service. One of my pet peeves with Windows is the lack of a central "updates everything" manager like with Linux or BSD. Having every application doing its own update management is not just a stupid wast of system resources but leads to some major security issues (no md5 checksums etc). The other issue with Windows is your average user "is not a security expert and never wants to be one they just want to use the computer". Lets be realistic, do you want a heart surgeon worrying about a virus on his laptop or the bypass he is about to perform on you and why should he be worrying he is a heart surgeon ffs. So if Microsoft offers end users a central and secure way to install applications (and drivers) and have all updates managed through a single service Im all for it. After having to help my parents (both medical professionals) deal with the ups and downs that is Windows 7 trust me an app store will save me hours of time on Skype explaining how to install or upgrade an application (last weekend I spent 30 min explaining how to remove firefox 3 after it stopped working and install firefox 4.0).
So I've got my shiny new app store on my shiny new Windows 8 machine. And I'm going to use said app store to purchase Windows 7?
It's FAKE. It's a HOAX.. Look at the apps in the app store list:
* Angry Birds: Not by "clickgamer" it's by Rovio.
* Windows 7 Ultimate? As an app you can download from Windows 8?
* "App Store" is trademarked by Apple.
* Title bar text isn't centered like in other Win8 leaks.
FAKE. move along, nothing to see here....
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Bing the lame version of Google (seach , maps, everything)
Zune the lame version of iPod
Media Centre the lame version of iTunes
Windows 7 phone the lame version of iPhone (lame because OS can't scale even to iPad size)
The only real question is how lame will the Microsoft App Store be?
Will MS App Store be as lame as Ultimate edition Extras?
or as lame as Windows Catalog in XP,
or as lame as the get help with this eror link, which always says there is no help for the error?
I want nothing like this on my system
I'm pretty sure that this is a fake. The idea is horrible, the implementation is clunky, and the use of Angry Birds in the screenshot to promote the store is childish at best. Ugly, unintuitive, and just pure garbage. Also, I'm sure that Opera wouldn't be one of the firsts to get to try this out. Junk.
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i agree, but it is not good for the monkeys
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as pointed out this is fake if for no other reason then it actually says "app store" in the menu.
"App Store" is trademarked by Apple; MS would not be so stupid to actually use that term.
Given that Apple isn't worried about it's cash flow anytime soon, it makes me wonder if CD Keys are really worth the hassle.
Other vendors don't have such an expensive dongle to make money with.
While I don't mind as such that they're doing it when are they going to do something before someone else rather than after?
Leave it to Micro$loth to skimp on R&D and just put on the hitch and follow Apple and it's App Store(s) again...
MacOSX, because making *NIX better is a lot better than waiting for Micro$loth to fix Windows
 1. The app store will randomly break from a Windows update for no apparent reason and suddenly when you try to buy apps, it'll start downloading and then you'll get "Unknown error 0x8004008 has occurred" with a "more info" hyperlink that leads to a 404 page on Microsoft's site. Running a repair or system restore will not fix it, and system file checker will tell you nothing is wrong. You'll then reinstall Windows.
 2. Once you reinstall Windows, you'll be able to download apps from the Windows App Store, but once the app is downloaded, it will launch the third party software vendor's own custom installation program which will stick junk all over your hard disk, trigger UAC prompts, and when you launch the app, another random app on your machine will try to repair itself.
 3. When you try and uninstall the app, you won't be able to do it from the app store, you'll have to go to "Programs and Features" and uninstall it from there, where you will get an error saying that the install log could not be found and you're unable to uninstall the app.
 I dare you to tell me I'm wrong.
There are plenty of good, and a few not so good (e.g., the whole Longhorn/Vista fiasco), reasons Microsoft doesn't have an app store yet. And I got so tired of all the BS in the system that I wrote a blog entry about it. Of course, you are welcome to consider my comments BS as well :-)
http://hal2020.com/2011/04/25/why-havent-we-seen-a-microsoft-windows-application-store/