Userfriendly wrote:Let's just hope Microsoft continues to be transparent and open to developer and consumer feedback. Windows 8 and Xbox One debacles certainly forced them to be.
Granted, but I find that is also certainly a result of the recent new management corporate realignment, since that was when we started witnessing those effects.
Without having used any Windows version newer than 7, I suspect a
Windows App would be what we've been calling
Web Apps, a specially customized browser that runs something essentially made up of HTML, CSS, Javascript and/or Java.
Desktop Applications would be more akin to
legacy Windows programs...
With the enhanced potential for unwarranted surveillance and other undesirable side-effects of the model
webfork alluded to, I'm not over-optimistic about such new trends, albeit there being really promising features and hardware involved.
FYI, the best generalist appraisal of the state of computing I've seen lately, in what is in fact a deep reflection on the
Internet of Things push, was SciFi writer cum EFF activist
Cory Doctorow's (longish) presentation in a specialized event in Germany...
"Our digital devices have become reservoirs of long-lived digital pathogens which can be used to attack us in every way."
Nice FUD scare tactic marketing too. 
But I'm sure they do know that even even pirates have access to their app store since all that requires is a microsoft account. They just want people to all be on the same OS to have access to it.
