- Aug 26, 2014
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Today, Yusuf Mehdi, The Corporate Vice President for the Windows and Devices Group at Microsoft, tweeted:
So Windows 10 has seen 6 times the number of app downloads PER computer in less than a month than Windows 8 has had for the last 3 years. Get that? Three years of people downloading apps for Windows 8, and Windows 10 has done 6x that per computer in less than a month.
That is bound to get the attention of developers. Any developer that looks at the Windows App platform as something where people aren't going to download apps is pretty much blind from this point going forward. Universal Apps are catching on to the public. Now that they run in a windows alongside desktop apps, they are more familiar, less intrusive, and more inviting. People are wanting them. Developers are going to want to provide them.
Apps are coming in the not-too-distant future. They are closer than I would have otherwise believed.
So Windows 10 has seen 6 times the number of app downloads PER computer in less than a month than Windows 8 has had for the last 3 years. Get that? Three years of people downloading apps for Windows 8, and Windows 10 has done 6x that per computer in less than a month.
That is bound to get the attention of developers. Any developer that looks at the Windows App platform as something where people aren't going to download apps is pretty much blind from this point going forward. Universal Apps are catching on to the public. Now that they run in a windows alongside desktop apps, they are more familiar, less intrusive, and more inviting. People are wanting them. Developers are going to want to provide them.
Apps are coming in the not-too-distant future. They are closer than I would have otherwise believed.