It’s A Mighty Hard Road To App Store Success

A bit of news that squeaked out during the Win8 festivities was the launch of the Microsoft app store. In the version of the software I was using, the app has always been there but it wasn't available until today. To be clear, the app store here is still in its absolute infancy and is, at best, a hall of demos for various app providers. The real test of Windows 8 will be the adoption of the OS's new design paradigms. While everyone will eventually have to fix their apps to reflect Win8's major architecture changes, there is going to be a lot of hand-holding until the Win9 (potentially) destroys all vestigial Windows cruft. For example, Windows 8 still uses a legacy version of the registry inside Windows 8, a necessary evil required by many applications. Many apps won't be able to update to Win8 UI standards and many more apps won't trickle over to the Microsoft app store. It's this disconnect that will challenge Windows 8 in the first few years of life.]]>

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