“Images of the new Windows App Store have emerged, showing similar functionality to not only Apple’s App Store, but also the Ubuntu Download Center,” Zack Whittaker reports for ZDNet.
“It suggests one will be able to download a vast number of applications, ranging from games to office applications,” Whittaker reports. “With applications available like Opera and Angry Birds, it’s clear that Microsoft are following suit with other content providers by opening up to third-party applications.”
Whittaker reports, “Since Apple released the Mac App Store, Microsoft has been fighting to get the application store ready for users in time. However, considering Apple’s move to sue Amazon for the use of the name ‘App Store,’ Microsoft could also be in hot water if it continues to use the name. Apple maintains it should have control over the ‘App Store’ name, though Microsoft is contending the challenge.”
Full article, with the screenshots, here.
MacDailyNews Take: Microsoft. Following Apple around like a brain-damaged puppy dog, as usual.
[Attribution: 9 to 5 Mac. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Angel C.” for the heads up.]
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I wonder if M$ is going to check each app? I would imagine AngryBirds3 could be a virus, and they make you pay for it. …N
OMG! MS is the epitomy of the Me, Too! Generation. So pitiful it’s hare to actually believe.
hare=hard. Yikes!
hahaha Love MDN’s take! Bravo!
I’m sure Crap Store is available for use, and far more apt.
Let me show you my shocked face :-O
Ha! I was beginning to think i was the only one that found that commercial hilarious.
MS should just give Apple their R&D budget, save all the recent wastage!
Well said Carlos since MS doesn’t do any R&D unless they believe researching is copying what Apple does. . .
They spend something like 10 times what Apple spends on R&D. I think they just put the money in a big pile and burn it.
When a company is run by marketing, it’s “R&D” in name only. Marketing people typically despise and undermine productivity oriented people, aka R&D. So indeed, after marketing has destroyed the R&D department’s morale, you might as well burn the money. This is the story of Microsoft.
Or hey! Better yet Microsoft: SIDAGTMBTTS
MDN! How could you! Insulting brain-damaged puppy dogs like that!
Am I the only one that finds the MDN Takes becoming more and more childish and less informative? Embarrassing to be honest.
-Proud owner of a Mac Pro, MacBook Pro, iPhone 3GS, and a healthy wariness of any form of Windows OS.
Yes. You are the only one.
I thought it was very informative but I was embarrassed for Microsoft.
This is the flavor of MDN. If you want something else, there are other Apple sites. A lot of us find this site refreshingly entertaining. And as biting and partisan as it can be, nobody from Nostradamus to Henry Blodget has more acute insight and predictive forecasting.
Nice take!
DrDoucheBag strikes again!
I don’t visit sites that I believe suck, why are either of you lurking here?
Fire up the Legal Department boys! It’s suin’ time!!
brain-damaged salamander, then. Or macao/orcnu/gleef
what.ever.
Shameless.
argle bargle morble whoosh
I see Time Benzedrino’s been by again.
Wasted R&D money?
I’m sure it costs a bundle to study and copy Apple. And how many lines of code were written for VISTA?. Wasted, indeed.
“They spend something like 10 times what Apple spends on R&D. I think they just put the money in a big pile and burn it.”
lolllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
long live steve ballmer
Douchebag Ballmer
Come-on everyone, write a letter to the board of directors at Microsoft and demand that they do everything possible to retain Ballmer. We just can’t let this guy leave the help of Microsoft.
If someone set up a petition to keep Monkey Boy as CEO we could come up with a couple hundred signatures from the site. Sort of cruel. And of course: ‘Turn about is fair play.’
That looks so original… Neve seen anything like it before. Good job Microsoft!
Who would ever expect anything more from Microsoft? SOS: Same Old Shite. 🙄
Different turd, same polish
Shouldn’t it be the Microsoft Program Store? Since when have they used the term ‘applications’?
Welcome to the Microsoft tm Windows tm 7/Vista/XP/2000/97
Program Explorer tm
Enterprise/Small Business/Professional/Home Premium/Home Extended/Home Distended/Home Light/Home Free (all tm) Edition tm
For Internet Explorer tm on Windows tm
by Microsoft tm
Offering DLLs and registry entries of all sizes and prices [over $29.99] (viruses free!)
Yeah, really. MS was always about programs.
But that would mean MS would have to come up with a cute nickname for “programs”.
Prog? Too much like frogs…
Rogs? Huh?
Rams? That’s more like MS, ramming it to people…
Grams? That’s it. The MS GramShoppe (shoppe is classy, right?)
I can hear the kitchen table conversation now…
“Can I borrow your credit card so I can buy a few grams, mom?”
How do you know when you’re approaching Redmond? Roll down your car windows and listen for the sound of copiers running 24 hours a day.
What concerns me is that MS make a play with the word App Store and show the courts that this is a generic term that they can use too…YOU SEE, SAID THE MS LAWYER TO THE JUDGE. And besides the only way MS can come up with something is like the author said, let Apple pave the way and then MS commercializes everything Apple does to their advantage…and they have a long history of this.
If copying is the sincerest form of flattery, may I suggest holders of MSFT stock sell and then buy AAPL. It would certainly be more “efficient”. 😉
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Microsoft is shameless in the admiration of all things Apple.
Correct. Copying is too nice a word. 😉
Microsoft is to Apple as vampires and zombies are to human beings.
I love in the screenshot they have Office 2010 in the “Efficiency” category… guess they didn’t want a category for “Bloatware”