AppStore for Microsoft Windows 8 Confirmed by Steve Sinofsky Microsoft Windows Cheif [News]

Mircrosoft has been working on providing AppStore for quite some time now which is not a secret anymore. Recently Microsoft’s Windows chief Steve Sinofsky said that We are ready to start discussing Windows 8 and today he has announced that which all teams are a t work on Windows 8 and on which portfolios.

Out of all the Portfolios the most noted feature is Windows App Store and a complete team working on this segment. The concept of AppStore emerged from Apple success in AppStore for iDevices and Macs which is now transforming in to all major software firms.

There was a hype created in April 2011 on Leaked Screenshots of Windows AppStore by CnBeta,

Although concept of AppStore for Microsoft is not new as Windows Vista contained Windows Market but the idea was not a success and later dropped in current version of Windows 7 but certainly with name AppStore we may mingle it with Microsoft copying Apple. The feature list according to development teams announced by Microsoft is as under,

• 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

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