While not released yet, the concept of walled garden and app-stores holds a very existent entrenched position in the commercial mind. I too believe MS need open standards and a thriving crossplatform ecosystem, but I hear more "lets emulate Apple" than I hear "lets emulate linux".
I am cynical. I believe MS want to copy what ever method is currently earning any other software company most money in the shortest term. App-stores keep being portrayed as the one great place where money is earned on software. Like many, I am also tired beyond reason of the word "app". I still see ads in the street that talk about "get our app!" as it would be completely different to say "Buy our software". Sooner or later, that bubble will burst, but until it does, I will doubt the motives of any move that cut of competitor in favor of an app-store which one single entity control.
I am cynical. I believe MS want to copy what ever method is currently earning any other software company most money in the shortest term. App-stores keep being portrayed as the one great place where money is earned on software. Like many, I am also tired beyond reason of the word "app". I still see ads in the street that talk about "get our app!" as it would be completely different to say "Buy our software". Sooner or later, that bubble will burst, but until it does, I will doubt the motives of any move that cut of competitor in favor of an app-store which one single entity control.