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."

Just hilarious

[Space cowboy]

Everyone is up-in-arms over the bizarre prediction [slashdot.org] by some third-party developers [arstechnica.com] that Apple will move to an app-store model on OSX (and all the haters pre-condemn them for this "fact" despite Jobs refuting it [macstories.net]), and then it's Microsoft that comes out and proposes to do it.

Question: Since Apple was labelled "the new Microsoft" due to its supposed policies, does this make Microsoft - um - the new Microsoft, again ? [grin]

Simon

Re:Just hilarious

[seanonymous]

Yes, but Apple's products are shiny.

Windows 8?

[Megahard]

I see a potential marketing problem.

Windows 8 .. my app.
Windows 8 my files.
Windows 8 my CPU.
Windows 8 all my money.

Re:Just hilarious

[interkin3tic]

Props to you and the other retards modding you insightful.

Hmm, you got the same mod apparently for insulting GP and the mods. Didn't even explain why you thought GP was wrong. That does indeed indicate something is wrong with the mods today, buncha stupid-head dummies that they are.

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[ground.zero.612]

Yes, but Apple's products are shiny.

I just had a terrible thought that involved a hair salon selling shiny "product" to a bunch of metro fanbois... *shudder*

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[MobileTatsu-NJG]

The point is that on Slashdot Apple's marketshare fluctuates depending on what the context is. If it's Apple being evil with apps, they have a practical monopoly. If it's about Android never catching up to them, then Apple has virtually no marketshare.

That's why we get the "but Apple doesn't have a monopoly" comments. Zealorty on both sides has muddied the information so now it can be bent and twisted to suit any argument.

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[Keebler71]

Obligatory [theonion.com]

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[bonch]

You don't understand. This is Slashdot, where you must be emotionally invested in an operating system, and you must demand that anything which challenges your favorite platform be investigated by the government for monopoly abuse, even though the fact you use an alternative counters your own monopoly claims. You must be incapable of tolerating the existence of an opposing, popular choice.

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[Anonymous Coward]

The frustrated tears of virgin Nerd rage are the tastiest tears of all.

Cry nerd, cry.