App Store for Windows? | The Coffeehouse

gstein

I have seen a lot of talk about an app store for windows mobile, but I do not know if there is such a thing for windows OS.

I am trying to figure out how to easily deploy an application for sale. I really want to make registration/ licensing easy.

Does anyone have a suggestion for such a website or place.

Thanks...

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

http://www.gog.com

They're amazing: great customer service, brillantly designed site, and no crap. Somehow I doubt an official Microsoft app store for Windows would be as smooth as this.

Dovella
Go Microsoft !!!!!!!

In reply to W3bbo

#Nov 8th @ 1:44 AM

Steam?

Games for Windows ?

blowdart
Peek-a-boo

In reply to Dovella

#Nov 8th @ 3:53 AM

Heh, look at that lack of Win7 support in Games for Windows

gstein

In reply to W3bbo

#Nov 8th @ 1:44 AM

ok... this is great for buying games... but what about selling other apps... I am working on a productiviey project and I don't think that this would work for me

Dovella
Go Microsoft !!!!!!!

In reply to blowdart

#Nov 8th @ 3:54 AM

99% of Vista Game, work perfect in Windows 7.

PS. now Steam us API Windows 7 Toolbar . GREAT!

ZippyV
Fired Up

In reply to gstein

#Nov 8th @ 4:50 AM

http://www.digitalriver.com/

It's not a platform like Steam but it takes care of the selling part of your application.

blowdart
Peek-a-boo

In reply to Dovella

#Nov 8th @ 5:17 AM

99% of Vista Game, work perfect in Windows 7.

And you got that statistic from where exactly? But that's not the point - right now there's very little MS downloads that even mention win7. Take the web platform installer for example - it talks about Win2008 and Vista and downloads IIS plugins. But IIS 7.5 is a little different to IIS7, for example the Windows Identity Framework won't run on it (not sure about the RC that was released a couple of days ago), yet the platform installer will happily install everything - but I'm not willing to risk a working IIS configuration to see if it gets it right, especially as the bits I want come with Vista patches.