News - Windows Phone and Windows app stores to merge in spring

[HEXUS]

Also Windows Phone and Windows RT are expected to combine.

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[Kepe]

Microsoft seems to be shifting their attention more and more towards the mobile market. With Steam OS arriving soon and Linux gaming starting to gain some traction, I wonder if Microsoft is going to start losing their market in the desktop PC world.
If games start appearing more and more often to Steam OS/Linux, I'm not sure what reason do I have to still hang on to Windows. Win 8 is already a horrible experience on a desktop PC, if you don't modify it so that you don't need the crappy Metro UI and those screen edge gestures that are horrible to use with a mouse and on a multi-screen PC.
With all this stuff happening, we might be on a brink of a PC revolution. If the gaming industry gets fed up with Microsoft and starts focusing more on Linux, Microsoft might be in trouble. They might think they are too big to fail, but look at what happened to Nokia. It only takes one innovative product to bring down an industry giant.

[wasabi]

Anyone ever bought anything on it?

[The Hand]

I have a Lumia 620, so I have bought a couple of games and a few apps for it through the Windows Phone store.

[vicar]

Yes and windows phone are good. they just work.

[iamlorro]

wonder how they'll stop confusion between the two.

Hope they arent going to make all windows phone 8 devices incompatible with all this future stuff like they did for windows phone 7