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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."
I wonder if they're going to try and kill Steam with this store.
Pimp the horrible "Games for Windows" service and use their monopoly to hurt Valve.
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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.
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Am I the only one who remembers the Windows Catalog in XP?
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I already download most of my software from one place: The Pirate Bay.
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I could definitely see this as a new attack on the Redmond giant for anti-trust laws about abusing monopoly power, regardless if there is any evidence to the claim. The flip side of that coin is that there are already application stores for Windows, and have been for a while; Steam, GameTap, RealArcade, Direct2Drive, just to name a few. As long as Microsoft doesn't bundle/tie the app store with the next incarnation of Windows, they should be fine with regulators. Otherwise, we can expect to see the "Choose your browser" like stuff that comes with the EU version of Windows.
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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.
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Android and iOS are both "viable" operating systems. People are not realizing what life without microsoft might look like, and they like it. What I want to see is Android finish building out their Tablets and start moving to Desktops in 2 years. Microsoft should be quaking in their boots if that should ever happen.
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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.
Release dates count, not when some intern thought of it.
The "AppStore" thing in XP is pathetic, and app store like package management has been around before 1999 in linux land.
Apple did not copy BSD, Mac OS was replaced with NEXT. They then decided to rename NEXT to OSX.
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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Pimp the horrible "Games for Windows" service and use their monopoly to hurt Valve.
No-one in their right mind would use GFW if they could use Steam, so unless Microsoft can convince all the PC game publishers to stop selling on Steam it's not going to happen. Since, from what I've read, game developers are trying to avoid GFW because it's a steaming heap of crap that a lot of their customers hate, I don't see that happening any time soon.
I was really impressed when I ran GTA4 from Steam recently and GFW, which serves no purpose in the game at all that I can determine, announced that it had to do an update, which required downloading a load of crap then exiting and restarting GTA4, which now crashes in some GFW DLL when I try to start it. After that delightful experience I'll never touch another GFW-infected game again (fortunately GTA4 also sucks so I don't really care that Microsoft terminally broke it).
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.
I hate this anti-intellectual attitude that attacks anything that doesn't lead to a new shiny for the lowest common denominator buyer. MS Research is actually a pretty good shop. Playing up conspiracy theories is being silly. Researchers aren't supposed to be marketers.
They don't seem to know what the hell to do, or at least not when to do it. They're stuck in an infinite loop of market research, competitive analysis and responding to consumer demand. So yeah, copying Apple.