The App Store mania will catch the most popular computing windows — Microsoft’s Office and SharePoint. In the next version of these applications, Microsoft will offer an app store.
The App Store mania will catch up with the most popular computing windows – Microsoft’s Office and SharePoint. In the next version of these applications, Microsoft will offer an app store.
Microsoft has a reason for opening the store – about 100 crore people use Office application globally.
When you get an address or reference in an e-mail, you need not go to another application to seek more details about the people or organisations mentioned in that address or reference. You can, say, check their details (for instance, Linkedin profile) or their sales history without having to move out of the mail window.
App store
Microsoft will soon open an App Store exclusively to cater to the needs of upcoming Office and Sharepoint. It has invited developers to develop relevant apps that can be put on the store. Popular networking sites such as LinkedIn are among the first to put their applications in the Store.
Throwing light on Office Store, the ‘best kept secret” in the next Office and SharePoint version, Vivek Narasimhan, David Mowatt and Humberto Lezama, said: “This is an exciting time to be an Office or SharePoint developer! If you haven’t had a chance to download the Office 2013 Preview or explore the new world of apps for Office and SharePoint at the developer centre, do so right away.”
Powerful features
Many of the critical tools and applications, which are important to make Office and SharePoint usage more meaningful and convenient, live on the Web or in applications outside of Office. “We’ve built the store so you could integrate the very best of the Web with the powerful features of Office and SharePoint,” he said.
The app developers can monetise their apps. Microsoft could retain 20 per cent of the transactions.