A few days ago Microsoft announced Windows 8 App Store, which is a certain online software catalogue for the new mass operating system Windows 8 that still hasn’t been launched officially. The online catalogue is expected to start working only in 2012, close to the release date of the operating system itself.
Conceptually, the Windows 8 App Store will be similar to the present existing App Mac App Store. Here users will be able to download paid and free applications. The operating system will have client software for the accelerated access to the catalogue. It should be noted that earlier Microsoft has also copied the ideas of mobile software catalogues. Now this policy is being carried out concerning desktop operating systems.
Independent observers and software development companies say that the main issue is a set of conditions according to which mobile software programming companies will be able to place their apps into the Windows 8 App Store.
Probably, one of the most important tasks of the online catalogue is to protect users from malicious software and viruses, which is a rather complicated task. At present Microsoft doesn’t give any specific details concerning the principles of its App Store functioning. They just note that in the store there will be a user as well as a business section and the company itself will try to make this catalogue interesting for more people by offering the whole range of applications including games and heavy corporate programs.



At present the Windows Phone API Mapping Tool already supports the iOS and Android platforms and performs the function of a translator between Windows Phone and other mobile operating systems. Using it, 
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Oliver Block, one of Windows CE developers, wrote in his diary that participants of the last conference devoted to integrated systems in San Jose asked him the same questions. They were interested if CE was killed by its developers going forward to the ARM-platform, or if developers were using Visual Studio and whether all Windows Embedded products were based on different SKU.
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