Is Windows 8's app store better late than never?

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Bing's “We're In” Windows Phone App is Foursquare's Other Half Washington Post - 19 Aug, 2011 By TechCrunch.com, On the rare occasions that I'm not sitting in a chat room and writing about phones, I usually play the role of “hang-out coordinator” among my friends. You probably have too: messaging people to see who's available, finding out who ...
Windows 8 App Store Will Change Windows Software Forever PCWorld (blog) - Tony Bradley - 19 Aug, 2011 Windows 8 is coming, and apparently its bringing a Windows 8 app store with it. Speculation that began with hints of an app store in leaked builds of Windows 8 earlier this year have been all but officially confirmed in a blog ...
	Yes, Windows 8 will have an app store �" what else? Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) - 19 Aug, 2011 The question has popped up every once and a while for more than a year: Will Microsoft follow Apple's lead and build an app store into Windows 8? The answer, it seems, is yes. Yes indeed. In a new post on Microsoft's Building Windows 8 blog, ...
Windows Phone Mango Preview August 2011 YouTube - 19 Aug, 2011 A preview of all the new features and functions of Windows Phone 7 Mango from the X'11 xBox 360 Event held in Muzik, Toronto ON on August 18, 2011.
Scott Adams passes judgement on iPhone, Android and Windows Phone ZDNet (blog) - Adrian Kingsley-Hughes - ‎Aug 18, 2011‎ Summary: Dilbert creator Scott Adams posts the results of a challenge by Microsoft to try a Windows Phone handset. A few weeks ago Dilbert creator Scott Adams took up a challenge offered by ...
Windows 8: App Store confirmed Generation NT (US) - 19 Aug, 2011 It was already more than a rumour which has now been officially confirmed. Microsoft has opened a blog dedicated to the conception of their upcoming Windows 8 operating system (Building Windows 8). After posting an initial welcome message inviting ...
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) Launching Location And Status App eMoneyDaily - Dallas Rayner - 19 Aug, 2011 Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has launched a new location sharing app 'We're In' for Windows Phone 7. This free app allows users to invite their friends using SMS and to share their location with each other. The app also helps to share status ...
How will Windows Phone 7 be successful? iProgrammer - Harry Fairhead - 19 Aug, 2011 The biggest puzzler in the mobile development world at the moment is Windows Phone 7. The question is, of course, will it ever manage to gain any traction in the market and start to take on the mighty Android and the profitable iPhone? ...
Microsoft blog confirms Windows 8 App Store Afterdawn.com - James Delahunty - 19 Aug, 2011 The blog entry was written by Steven Sinofsky, President of the Windows Division at Microsoft, to introduce the teams that are working on the firm's Windows 8 products, which will be available for PCs, tablets, smartphones and beyond when launched. ...
We're In - The Bing Social App for Windows Phone GISuser.com (press release) - 19 Aug, 2011 Bing has added a new social connect app for Windows Phone users called “We're In”. The idea is to hook up with a group of friends and you all share your location. You invite a friend or colleague to join you, then once they do so you can share each ...
Windows 8 will include app store FierceCIO - Paul Mah - 19 Aug, 2011 In a new entry on the Building Windows 8 blog, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has all but revealed that its upcoming Windows 8 operating system will include an app store. Windows Live Division President Steven Sinofsky highlighted a number of features ...
Microsoft launches We're In activity organizer app for Windows Phone Fiercemobilecontent - Jason Ankeny - 19 Aug, 2011 Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) Bing unit introduced We're In, a new mobile social networking application enabling Windows Phone users to more efficiently organize activities based on their friends' current locations. We're In allows you to see your friends' ...
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) Makes App Store Pledge eMoneyDaily - Cory Perrin - 19 Aug, 2011 Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has plans to introduce an app store in its upcoming Windows 8 operating system. The software giant Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has said that its new Windows operating system Windows 8 will have an app store. ...
	Microsoft Launches We're In - A Location Sharing App Tech Gadgets Web (blog) - 19 Aug, 2011 Microsoft has released a new location based application named as “We're In” that allows the users to organize and share their social gatherings locations with others. The new Windows Phone 7 app is powered up by Bing. Using this app, users will be able ...
	Microsoft app coordinates meetups on a map �" stepping on Glympse's toes? GeekWire - Todd Bishop - 19 Aug, 2011 A new Windows Phone app released by Microsoft Bing this week �" dubbed “We're In” �" aims to help groups of people connect with each other and meet up on the fly for activities such as carpools, gatherings, lunch, dinner, drinks or pretty much anything ...
	Microsoft intros location-based Windows Phone app THINQ.co.uk - 19 Aug, 2011 Microsoft has decided to take location-based service Foursquare on with the launch of Windows Phone app from its Bing team dubbed "We're in." The concept for the app is simple, and familiar to anyone who's used Foursquare, Google's Latitude, ...
Microsoft confirms app store in Windows 8 ITBusiness.ca - Gregg Keizer - 19 Aug, 2011 Microsoft has begun talking about Windows 8 in general terms, reprising a blog-based strategy that it used in the year-long run-up to Windows 7. Microsoft kicked off the "Building Windows 8" blog on Monday, almost exactly three years after the debut of ...
'Building Windows 8′ Blog Reveals Ambitious Microsoft Plans The VAR Guy - Dave Courbanou - 19 Aug, 2011 My initial reception of the Windows 8 tech demo Microsoft debuted in June 2011 was tepid �" a touch layer on top of the existing Windows 7 operating system? Not much to look at, really. But according to the official Microsoft “Building Windows 8″ blog, ...
	Microsoft launces Bing "We're In" for Windows Phone 7 devices Gadget Helpline (blog) - 19 Aug, 2011 If anyone were to say the Microsoft is not original then… well they would be right as Microsoft's Bing Team has just outed its new Location sharing application for the Windows Phone 7 operating system called “We're In”. Yep, you are probably hearing ...
Windows 8 will have an App Store Eurogamer.net - 19 Aug, 2011 That was one of the feature teams name-checked during a MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network) blog post about "Introducing the team". There are 35 separate teams collaborating to build the next generation of Windows, and each of those teams can comprise ...
	Microsoft to launch Windows App Store Develop - Rob Crossley - 19 Aug, 2011 The next Windows PC operating system will include its own App Store, Microsoft has announced. The company hasn't detailed anything relating to strategy but did confirm that it has assembled an App Store team as ...
	App Store planned for Windows 8 MCV - Ben Parfitt - 19 Aug, 2011 Microsoft has announced that the next version of its Windows PC operating system will include an App Store. The company hasn't detailed anything relating to strategy but did confirm that it has assembled an App Store team as it continues ...
Windows 8 OS to have app store IT News Africa - 19 Aug, 2011 In recent days news of Microsoft's next operating system started to surface, but now the company has confirmed through their Building Windows 8 blog, that Windows 8 will have an app store. This also indicates that Microsoft might be looking at using ...
Microsoft building App Store for Windows 8 GamesIndustry.biz (registration) - 19 Aug, 2011 A post on the Microsoft Developer Network blog lists all of the teams currently at work on Windows 8 features. The list includes App Store, App Compatibility and Device Compatibility, and App Experience. "You can look at all the comments and see the ...
We're In, Location Sharing App from Microsoft Released for WP7 IGYAAN - Bharat Nagpal - 19 Aug, 2011 Microsoft has just outed the new “We're In” location sharing app for Windows Phone 7 Devices. The App is free to download in the marketplace and is available now. The App works on a time based location sharing scheme, first you invite someone to share ...
Microsoft's Windows 8 will have an app store says company blog DigitalJournal.com - Samantha Emann - 19 Aug, 2011 Steve Sinofsky, President of the Windows Division at Microsoft, has confirmed that the new Windows 8 operating system will have an app store. Sinofsky officially confirmed in a blog yesterday that Windows 8 will have an app store . ...
The App Report: App Store Coming to Windows 8, No Xbox Live Love VGChartz - Carlos Macias - 19 Aug, 2011 App store, the generic term, as far as the legal system keeps telling Apple, is used to describe the digital storefront that has made the mobile world a lucrative proposition for even those developers who've cut ...
Bing Launches Cool App For Sharing Locations & Planning Group Events [PICS] Mashable - Ben Parr - 19 Aug, 2011 Bing has launched “We're In,” a new app for Windows Phone that lets a group of friends coordinate their plans by sharing their locations. The app isn't like Foursquare, which is designed to broadcast your location to the rest of the world. ...
Microsoft's Bing “We're In” app could come to Australia within months iTech Report - 19 Aug, 2011 By Brenton \| Contact Brenton via email Microsoft's new location-based application that allows users to share their locations with others could be available in Australia within months, after launching in the United States overnight. ...
	WinInfo Short Takes: August 19, 2011 Windows IT Pro - Paul Thurrott - 19 Aug, 2011 An often irreverent look at some of this week's other news, including a reminder about the Build Blogger Bash, how HP's PC exit will impact Microsoft (maybe), a wake-up call about the Windows 8 app store, Microsoft's Turkey tablet bid, Office 365's ...