Microsoft Implements App Store for Servers
by Wyatt WalterMicrosoft has seen the successes of the Apple App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch and has created one of their own. Their app store, however, is for server-side web-based software. The store, named Web App Gallery, will allow users to select software to install and then it configures the server and resolves any dependencies for the application to run. Microsoft’s Lauren Cooney explains:
“Essentially, what we have launched with Windows Web Application Gallery is a marketing and distribution pipeline. So if a developer has a great app they want to include in the Web Application Gallery, we will market that worldwide – so they have the reach that they never had before.”
The store currently only contains 10 applications so far and they are all open source applications. It seems that Microsoft has embraced the fact that easing the distribution of open source web applications on their platform will help adoption of the platform.
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Mar 24th, 2009
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