Microsoft Corporation plans to merge the Windows Store and Windows Phone Store into a single app store.
Our colleagues from The Verge claim that Terry Myerson, vice president of the Microsoft operating systems group, yesterday at a meeting with his colleagues announced the company’s plans to merge the Windows Store and Windows Phone Store into one store. The merger will take place simultaneously with the release of new versions of Windows and Windows Phone in the spring of next year.
How exactly the new app store will work, the sources of the publication do not report. Perhaps the delicious food is connected with the development of Windows RT, which Microsoft does not plan to abandon, despite the reluctance of most vendors to work with this system and the huge losses of Microsoft itself on Surface sales.
In other words, there is a possibility that applications for smartphones based on Windows Phone will run on “tablets” on Windows RT.
For us, in turn, it is unclear:
- Why wasn’t this done before?
- Why did Microsoft bring to the tablet market (and continues to bring) devices with a full version of Windows?