14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft introduced the new Windows 10 Preview last week, but the company said that the Start menu, the revamped search and multiple desktops were only 10 percent of what users would get in the final version of the operating system.
Indeed, it appears that Redmond is already working on lots of other improvements for the full Windows 10 release, and one of the changes could be a revised Windows Store that would provide access to something extra, besides Modern apps.
A blog post removed by Microsoft shortly after it was published, most likely because the company didn't want to share such details so soon, revealed that the Windows 10 Store would also provide access to a little bit more than Metro apps, including desktop software and “other types of digital content.”
What exactly other types of digital content means is still unknown, but Microsoft most likely wants to make the store the unique destination for Windows 10 users looking for stuff for their devices, be they PCs, tablets, or smartphones.
“More than just modern apps”
The revamped Windows 10 store, which is very likely to be presented in preview form in a future testing build of the operating system, could thus make it faster for users to download content for their devices, while also providing a number of services to companies.
Microsoft could charge organizations worldwide for creating their very own lists of public or private apps in the store and thus make it easier for employees or even for end users to download their software, without the need for going to an online repository with their browsers.
“The Windows Store will also support more than just modern apps. It will add desktop apps, as well as other types of digital content. We will provide many different ways to pay for apps. And we'll provide an organization store within the public Windows Store, where an org can place their own curated list of public apps as well as specific line-of-business apps that their employees need,” the blog post reveals.
Microsoft removed the blog post really fast, and although the company most likely wanted to tease us on the changes that are going to be implemented in Windows 10 very soon, it's also proof that some of the details of the new store are yet to be finalized.
The company, however, is expected to provide us with a preview of the new store in the coming updates shipped to Windows 10 users, but it's not yet clear whether this will happen sooner or later. The full version of Windows 10 is likely to launch in spring 2015, so the revised store should be here by that time.