Windows 8 App Store Screens Leaked

[pi_mai]

Come on MS do your own thing. Stop copying Apple and make your own choices!

 

[K2N hater]

The idea is good but that's ran by Microsoft... They're sure to use it against other software companies. For instance, I doubt they'll offer OpenOffice or Messenger clones for $0

 

[vshlos]

I like how the top app is angry birds! LOL

http://oim.ae/oivideo

 

[virtualban]

[citation][nom]K2N hater[/nom]The idea is good but that's ran by Microsoft... They're sure to use it against other software companies. For instance, I doubt they'll offer OpenOffice or Messenger clones for $0[/citation]
nailed it!

 

[kinggraves]

[citation][nom]K2N hater[/nom]The idea is good but that's ran by Microsoft... They're sure to use it against other software companies. For instance, I doubt they'll offer OpenOffice or Messenger clones for $0[/citation]

Pretty much this. Does having an App Store mean that I can continue to download and install my own EXEs outside the store, or will I be limited to ONLY using approved MS Apps? The answer to this question will be a decisive factor in the future of PC freedom. I will definitely refuse to support an OS that doesn't give me the option of installing outside "apps". Even this reeks of antitrust violations. Hand the consumer back the option of installing MS products or nonMS products, but you have to jump through hoops to get the nonMS products to work. If the average user is told to use the "new app store", they'll go there and use what's in it, without even realizing there's another option.

 

[captaincharisma]

[citation][nom]SkateNY[/nom]People don't use CNET for downloads because it no longer is 1998.[/citation]

yea really i have no reason to download a copy of Netscape navigator 3

 

[erick81]

I still use filehippo on my windows computers thats kinda like an app store.

 

[2real]

[citation][nom]randomizer[/nom]Is there a download.com phone application? That would truly mkae it the universal "app store".Which in reality is only a small number of people. Most people say they care about privacy, but they also use Facebook and tell the world what they are doing and thinking throughout the day. Just don't tap into their unsecured Wifi that is openly broadcasting every email and every password that is sent over a standard HTTP connection out into the street. That's going too far.Do you honestly think it is easier to gain access to the contents of a multi-million-dollar corporate datacenter than a home PC filled with spyware?[/citation]
it's called a web browser

 

[Fecal Face]

I think for actually downloading new software, this is kind of pointless. Anybody could just go to whatever website the software is on, and download it. What I think this would be useful for is finding new / useful software.

Take CCleaner for example. I never would have known it existed had someone not told me. Same goes for quite a few other programs I use all the time now (Handbrake, GIMP (I have PS now but still), etc.)

I guess you could use CNET (google, even) to find new / useful programs, but from what I've experienced, download.com has a lot of, well, crap. A few weeks ago, I was looking for a RAID recovery tool, and every single one I downloaded from download.com was a limited trial, and wouldn't actually recover anything until you bought the full program. Totally useless.

Either way, if you like it, use it. If you don't, disable it (uninstall?) and move on with your life 😛

 

[slipdisc]

[citation][nom]LuckyDucky7[/nom]Man, it looks dated already. Where's the IE9, this-is-2011-and-we-totally-ripped-of-Linux-but-you'd-never-know-unless-you-ever-see-a-Linux-package-manager look?I mean, come on! If it's going to be a place for all your apps it should give you the power to uninstall them as easily as you installed them.If it's trying to mimic the usability of the Linux GUI environment it needs to be doing a better job.[/citation]

I despise the whole idea of an app store on windows. But in defense of MS there indeed a "manage apps" link right there in the left menu. MS is probably not wanting to deviate too much from the way windows currently manages installed applications.

I very well could be wrong but, that's just my take on it.

Cheers

 

[alextheblue]

[citation][nom]Alsone[/nom]Cloud the only thing you need to know why Windows 8 isn't gong to be a success in my opinion. With those who value their security and privacy anyway. I have to wonder which idiot at Microsoft had that idea, lets take everyone's private data, files and browsing history etc and store it on the internet where its much more vulnerable to hacking and data theft, and to being covertly accessed by governments.[/citation]
Yeah good thing Google is totally against Cloud.... Oh wait...

 

[ravewulf]

Would it kill them to add some color and icons to the UI?
I hate that Windows 7/Windows Live only use white up to 15% gray and plain text with maybe two or three generic icons.

 

[cpatel1987]

I really don't see the concept of an app store on a computing os. Google accomplishes the same thing for free programs out there. Heck, www.download.com by CNET accomplishes a similar thing. App stores in my opinion should stay in tablets and phones where they belong.

 

[Alsone]

[citation][nom]adamboy64[/nom][citation][nom]randomizer[/nom]Do you honestly think it is easier to gain access to the contents of a multi-million-dollar corporate datacenter than a home PC filled with spyware?[/citation]
[/citation]

Yes. Just look at all of the banks and big corporate bodies and government computer systems that have been hacked in the past, or don't you think banks and government bodies such as the CIA have good security?

Fact is put all of your data in one place and it becomes an instant target for every hacker in the world. On your own pc, why would they target you out of the x billion pc's world wide to choose from? Very few private pc's ever get hacked. They may get keylogged occassionally from people after credit card numbers etc, but hardly anyone privately ever gets hacked because its not worth the effort from the hackers when they know in all probability 99% of the time there's nothing of interest on there. Put everything on one central database and for one hack there's almost certainly information of interest somewhere.

Also, say goodbye to your privacy when the government has access to all of your files. Think they won't check?

Think if you're on benefits they won't look at your photos to see what you've been doing? You may have done nothing wrong but it only takes one photo to suggest you have done something they think you shouldn't have done and its good bye benefits. Look at the number of people caught out by Facebook. Sure some were fiddling and deserved to be caught but what about others who weren't but who had photos that suggested to an outsider that maybe they were fit for work? Taken out of context a photo can suggest many things.

Think they won't be checking your browsing history? Think if you accidentally went to a dodgy web site they won't be interested in that information?

Get real pal. I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't actually governments that put Microsoft up to this suggestion of storing information on the internet specifically to give themselves easier access.

Anyone who puts their private files and information onto the web has to be asking for trouble.

For me Windows is now stuck at Version 7 and if Cloud continues then I'll have to start learning the Apple OS.

 

[Guest]

First, Microsoft, unlike Apple will not constrict you to only installing from their App Store on non mobile devices (Even Apple lets you install what you want on desktops). Second, this is a place to buy apps in a centralized, streamlined built in utility (much easier/better than a web-page IMO). Plus, it's not a novel idea.. so all of the chest puffing is kinda funny. Microsoft just happens to be farther behind the curve than usual on actually doing this.

Odds are, they will offer free software that competes with theirs (unlike Apple). I say "they" will offer, but it will probably be up to OpenOffice to publish it there. I highly doubt MS would not allow it to be published. Right now, if you subscribe to be a program publisher with MS it's $100 a year and you can write programs/publish for both Windows Phone 7 and the XBox. Odds are, these will be published the same way.