A blog post on MSDN by Steven Sinofsky, President of Microsoft's Windows Division, confirms there will be a Windows 8 app store.
In the post, Sinofsky lists the teams that are working on Windows 8, and right towards the top of the alphabetical list is "App Store."
Based on a legitimate-looking roadmap that was leaked last summer, we suspected Microsoft would eventually launch its own Windows 8 app store. One of the slides in the roadmap pointed to competitor Apple's success for providing a "high quality, uncomplicated" product, while another outlined plans to replicate the company's successful app store model. Apple opened the doors of its own Mac App Store in January.
"When we started building Windows 8 we had a clear sense of the direction we were heading and so we built a team structure to support that direction," Sinofsky says in the post. He also goes into detail about how the teams divide responsibility, are made up of different roles, and how they go through the engineering process to deliver their product.
