The Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) Building Windows 8 blog confirms that an App Store development team is among the groups working on Windows 8. This blog, kicked off on Monday, follows the general design of the Engineering Windows 7 blog created three years ago to advertise the previous Microsoft OS. President of Windows development, Steven Sinofsky, didn’t go into detail about what their app store might look like, but did say team names listed in the blog’s post “describe features or areas that you are familiar with or that you can probably figure out based on the name.” Among those familiar areas is the App Store.
Although this marks the first official acknowledgement of an App Store in the Windows 8 code, signs of App Store code in leaked Windows 8 previews started circulating around the blogosphere as far back as several months ago. So far, Microsoft isn’t saying anything about the Windows 8 release schedule, but it’s interesting that Sinofsky’s blog entry appears exactly three years and one day after the Windows 7 version. If this indicates an internal release timetable that’s based on a template of the last one, we could see Windows 8 launch around October, 2012.
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