{"id":13564,"date":"2011-08-20T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"windows-8-will-have-an-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/13564-windows-8-will-have-an-app-store","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8 will have an App Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has exploded in popularity over the last few years, with each new product gaining massive amounts of global success. A large part of the appeal for Apple products is the App Store, a massive repository of programs to do, well, just about anything. This makes Apple products extremely versatile, and has no doubt contributed to their phenomenal popularity &ndash; over 15 billion apps downloaded in three years.<\/p>\n<p>It would seem Windows is looking to follow in Apple&rsquo;s golden footsteps, and create a custom App Store of their own. This bit of news comes from a post on the Microsoft Developer Network blog, reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/articles\/2011-08-19-microsoft-building-app-store-for-windows-8\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"gamesindustry.biz\">gamesindustry.biz<\/a>, which lists all the teams currently working on Windows 8 features &ndash; including App Store, App Compatibility, Device Compatibility and App Experience.<\/p>\n<p>The post also reads, &#8220;You can look at all the comments and see the incredible demand for new features across a very wide range of scenarios.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Folks want new things, and changes to existing things; they want features to be available globally, to be accessible, and to be super high quality; they want things to work on existing hardware, and to take advantage of the latest new hardware. Our job is to get as much done in as short a time as possible, at a very significant scale.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft seems to have big plans for its next OS, let&rsquo;s hope we won&rsquo;t have another Vista on our hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hard to ignore Apple&#039;s golden goose<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}