Saturday, August 20, 2011

Windows 8 will store applications

On Monday, Steve Sinofsky, head of Microsoft department responsible for Windows development, said he was finally "ready" to talk about the next generation of its operating system, and gave some details about the next incarnation of the program .

And one of the resources committed to the one that surely will not be called Windows 8 is the presence of an applications store, in the same way that the competitors can be seen in Apple's OS X and Ubuntu.

The first rumors that the next version of Windows would have a app store came early this year when some screenshots of an application can store Microsoft leaked on the web. As noted by the Business Insider website earlier this year Redmond giant has tried to patent the brand App Store, but was unsuccessful because the term was "too generic".

Other features that should give the guys in the upcoming Windows there is a mysterious "Platform for Human Interaction", which is likely to be powered by a version of Kinect aimed at personal computers. Already a new feature called "In Control of Your PC should be a new security feature that can even be controlled by voice.