Microsoft Windows Store

[ErosOlmi]

New opportunities for Windows developers.
(page is in Italian translated into English by babelfish)

http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-home&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hwfiles.it%2Fnews%2Fmicrosoft-windows-store-spazio-agli-sviluppatori_39810.html&lp=it_en&btnTrUrl=Translate

[Petr Schreiber]

Here english version from engaged.net, I could not get working the babelfish one in Firefox:
Microsoft demos Windows Store, coming to Windows 8 beta in February (http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/06/microsoft-demos-new-windows-phone-marketplace-now-with-more-met/)It looks interesting, but if I understand it correctly, it seems focused on the Metro style applications.
Do you think in future it will expand to native Win32 apps, or it would be too much of problem (because the Metro ones can run on both x86 and ARM = less problems).


Petr

[ErosOlmi]

Well, situation is still uncertain: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-to-drop-desktop-app-from-windows-8-arm-tablets/11325

To me what is important is that Win32 will be fully supported by Windows 8 under x86.
This will give us a lot of time to decide what will be the best for future.

Sure it is that hardware is continuously improving in both speed and saving energy consumption so the future is open to many different paths.
The more power will come from hardware the more options there will be in software development.

[fgasoi]

Well, situation is still uncertain: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-to-drop-desktop-app-from-windows-8-arm-tablets/11325

To me what is important is that Win32 will be fully supported by Windows 8 under x86.
This will give us a lot of time to decide what will be the best for future.

Sure it is that hardware is continuously improving in both speed and saving energy consumption so the future is open to many different paths.
The more power will come from hardware the more options there will be in software development.

As a hardware engineer, I have always sort of resented the fact that continual hardware improvement becomes a license for the software fraternity to write inefficient bloatware. Thankfully this is not true of ThinBasic. Resist the temptation of featuritis.

Rick

[ErosOlmi]

As a hardware engineer, I have always sort of resented the fact that continual hardware improvement becomes a license for the software fraternity to write inefficient bloatware.

:D
Yes that has been the recent tendency: get pre-packed piece of code that wrap something that wrap something else that wrap someone else wrapper.