Originally Posted by
crise If that is the case it doesn't differ much from now.
Oh, but it does. Not for the consumer, but for the developers. This should pave the way for devs to push universal apps, which would be more cost-effective for them and simpler when targeting ONE marketplace. The consumer will have the added benefit of buying any app ONCE, then installing on any windows machine they have (right now, you have to buy the same app, say, Angry Birds, twice on Windows and WP, because they're technically different apps).