Ever since Apple's App Store hit the scene, every platform holder has made sure that an app store is built into their new OS. Android has multiple app stores, in fact! Microsoft is busy working on Windows 8, its new OS that will run in a number of different form factors. A post on the “Building Windows 8” blog, listing all the teams working on Windows 8 features, has outed the new App Store.
Some interesting divisional standouts on the full list include “App Compatibility and Device Compatibility”, “App Store”, “Core Experience Evolved”, “Ecosystem Fundamentals”, and “Human Interaction Platform”. The full list is below:
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App Compatibility and Device Compatibility
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App Store
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Applications and Media Experience
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App Experience
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Core Experience Evolved
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Device Connectivity
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Devices & Networking Experience
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Ecosystem Fundamentals
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Engineer Desktop
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Engineering System
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Enterprise Networking
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Global Experience
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Graphics Platform
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Hardware Developer Experience
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Human Interaction Platform
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Hyper-V
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In Control of Your PC
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Kernel Platform
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Licensing and Deployment
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Media Platform
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Networking Core
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Performance
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Presentation and Composition
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Reliability, Security, and Privacy
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Runtime Experience
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Search, View, and Command
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Security & Identity
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Storage & Files Systems
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Sustained Engineering
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Telemetry
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User-Centered Experience
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Windows Online
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Windows Update
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Wireless and Networking services
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XAML
Windows 8 is a huge project for Microsoft; an attempt to show that it can move forward into a future increasingly dominated by Apple.
“When we started Windows 7 some people told us that the Windows team was too big and had reached a size that caused more engineering problems than it solved. At the same time, you can look at all the comments and see the incredible demand for new features across a very wide range of scenarios,” said Steven Sinofsky, president of the Windows division.
“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. That's all a pretty significant engineering effort.”
Will it be enough?
