Microsoft on Wednesday revealed that it will follow in Apple's footsteps by building an "App Store" for the next generation of its flagship OS, codenamed Windows 8. Windows boss Steven Sinofsky ...

Microsoft had a chance to fix Windows’ long-messy application update process with the launch of that Store app alongside ...

Microsoft’s prototype of its Windows Store. Wondering what buying apps in Windows 8 will be like using Microsoft’s new app store, dubbed the Windows Store? Microsoft shared some details ...

Microsoft has a team of engineers hard at work on an app store for Windows 8, the next iteration of the company’s operating system due out in 2012. The revelation comes via a recent blog post by ...

Steven Sinofsky, President of the Windows Division at Microsoft, has officially confirmed (somewhat subtly) that the upcoming Windows 8 operating system will indeed have an app store. The news was ...

Microsoft officials revealed more details about how the company plans to design and organize its Windows 8 app store via a blog post on January 20. (click on the image above to enlarge ...

As of earlier this fall, the plan was that the store will be the exclusive way for developers to distribute new-style Windows 8 apps. Microsoft did not share the business details although some ...

Microsoft's Windows Store has hit the 100,000-app milestone, but it's still playing catch-up with Google and Apple when it comes to overall numbers. A Windows Store app is a new type of ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft detailed the fine points of its Windows Store for Windows ...

"If you build it, they will come" appears to be Microsoft's approach ... the company is showing off its upcoming "Windows Store" for Metro apps to run on Windows 8 PCs and tablets.

Microsoft will force Windows 8 Metro style application developers to create a unique name for their app in the Windows Store. By Tom Warren, a senior editor covering Microsoft, PC gaming ...

He's the author of two tech books--one on Windows and another on LinkedIn. Microsoft designed its Windows 8 app store to make it easy to find and download content. But that goal proved challenging ...