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Gizmodo: Ballmer On a Microsoft App Store: Sure, Why Not? [Microsoft]
Newlaunches.com: Ballmer hints on launching Apple like Windows App Store
AppleInsider: Microsoft plans to embrace Apple's App Store format
MacMagazine: Microsoft trabalha em formato de distribuição de softwares semelhante à iPhone App Store
Phones Review: Microsoft working on possible App Store style distribution
Ballmer On a Microsoft App Store: Sure, Why Not? [Microsoft]
Gizmodo —
... App Store. "I actually will agree that there's some good work, particularly at Facebook and also with the iPhone, where both of those companies have made it easier for developers to distribute their applications," he said. The chair chucker went on to say there's "not much money being made" with those platforms, but he agreed with the concept, and confirmed there's something coming from Redmond on this front soon. So, Microsoft emulate Apple? I'll believe it when I see it... [Computerworld] ...
Ballmer hints on launching Apple like Windows App Store
Newlaunches.com —
... Apple's iPhone App Store, but being the monopoly player in the IT industry, Microsoft's application marketplace, and delivery mechanism is the industry itself. Simply cataloguing the plethora of software available from DOS to Windows 7, Windows Mobile, and now Windows Azure is overwhelming. It may seem logical to divide the software by platforms, but as Ballmer said himself today, one of Microsoft's goals is to unify the experience between different devices for users and developers. Source
Microsoft plans to embrace Apple's App Store format
AppleInsider —
... at [WebKit], but right now we feel very confident in our browser team and its availability to execute," he said at a developers conference in Australia, adding that while it's important his firm's browser embraces Web standards, it's vital that the company also be able to deliver "proprietary innovation" through "innovative extensions." That said, Ballmer was more keen on mimicking Apple's move to digital software distribution through the App Store, revealing that Microsoft will soon launch a similar program that lets developers distribute their applications directly to ...
Microsoft trabalha em formato de distribuição de softwares semelhante à iPhone App Store
MacMagazine —
Além de falar sobre WebKit e Internet Explorer, o CEO da Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, revelou na última sexta-feira projetos de desenvolver uma suposta Microsoft App Store.
“De fato, concordo que há bons trabalhos sendo feitos, especialmente no Facebook e também no iPhone, nos quais ambas companhias tornaram mais simples o processo de distribuição de aplicativos por parte dos desenvolvedores”, disse ele. “Elas facilitaram bastante a exposição de trabalhos.”
Pra não perder a pose, afirmou que as plataformas “não estão gerando tanto dinheiro” — para constar: no mês passado, a Apple bateu a marca ...
Microsoft working on possible App Store style distribution
Phones Review —
While at a developer’s conference in Sydney, Australia, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced Microsoft is working on a software distribution scheme. However, Microsoft has no intention to copy Apple Inc in any other way.
Ballmer rejected the idea of utilising an open source Web kit rendering engine, and during a Q&A session for Australian developers, Ballmer stated that Microsoft will launch the service soon and it will allow programmers to sell their wares direct to the consumer.
The Microsoft CEO said: “We debated long and hard before the [Professional Developers Conference] whether we ought to disclose some of the things that we’ve got in ...
Microsoft says “me too” on AppStore aspirations
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis —
You look confused, Steve. Imagine that.
When a company becomes as bloated as Microsoft, it’s bound to make stupendous mis-steps (ahem, Vista) and alienate itself from the rest of the standards-adhering industry (ahem, Internet Explorer). But, even under CEO Steve Ballmer’s wayward leadership, Microsoft will apparently change its traditionally Apple-hating ways and has hinted at the development of a ...
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