Microsoft to merge WP and Windows stores

"Sadie Web News" September 27, according to foreign media reports, Microsoft is planning to merge Windows Phone store and Windows store into a single application store. Terry Myerson, director of Microsoft's operating system division, confirmed the move in Thursday at an internal meeting of thousands of Microsoft employees, according to people familiar with the matter. Trie Meiersen. Myerson does not disclose how a single app store works, nor does it say whether Windows Phone apps can run on a Windows platform in a new mode. Myerson previously commented publicly that he believes that the future of Windows RT lies in mobile phones and tablets. "Windows RT is our first arm tablet computer," he said at a recent analyst meeting. As mobile phones expand into tablets, we expect to see more arm tablets, Windows arm tablets in the future. Microsoft may take a similar approach to Apple's App store. In the Apple App Store, tablet-specific apps can't run on phones. However, mobile apps can run on a tablet computer. Microsoft has been promising to launch a unified platform between mobile phones and computer operating systems. Myerson has previously said that all applications that Microsoft provides to end users should be able to run on all our devices.