Microsoft to establish a "software store"

In Sydney, Australia, was held yesterday at the Power to Developers developers conference, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that Microsoft is also developing a similar to the iPhone App Store, Apple's software sales program.

At the same time, however, Ballmer said Microsoft has no plans to follow the example of Apple overall, but to adopt a different approach. The first thing to do things which may be based on the WebKit open source browser as the core of Apple's Safari because of the use of Webkit, and Google's Chrome is the same.

In response to the question, Ballmer said Microsoft will soon launch a service, which will allow programmers direct to the consumer software sales. Ballmer that "in fact, I could not agree at present to do some good work, in particular, Facebook and the iPhone, the two companies so that developers can facilitate the sale of application"


"Although the money, but enough so that programmers will continue to develop and enhance the transparency of the code. This is a good idea"

When asked whether the program will be implemented, when implemented, Ballmer said, "My answer is' is not the time to talk with you ', but do not worry, we work hard, and you will see some Facebook similar to the concept of what "