A job offer suggests the unification of the Windows and Windows Phone stores

Microsoft has always said that porting apps between Windows 8, Windows RT, and Windows Phone 8 was relatively easy since all three systems shared much of your code. But, for now, the development platforms are different, preventing applications written for one of them from working directly on the other two. Simple as it may be, additional work is still required on the developer's part to port an application from one system to another. Although there may be a fix on the way.

A new job offer posted this week suggests that Microsoft is working on unifying the app stores of its operating systems desktop and mobile operating system. From the description of the offer, the plan appears to merge development platforms so that it's possible to directly run unmodified Windows Store apps on Windows Phone and vice versa.

The offer was published on the Microsoft recruitment website, although it is currently no longer available. Instead, the message appears that the job has already been filled. The app description asked applicants if they would like the code they wrote for a Windows Store app to work directly on Windows Phone Is there any different answer to a resounding yes to such a question?

The Redmonds were looking for a Test Software Development Engineer to help them unify the Windows Store and Windows Phone Store development platforms To do so, they intend to bring a large part of the WinRT and .NET API from the Windows Store to the mobile operating system. How far the level of integration would go is a mystery, but it's worth remembering that Windows RT and most, if not all, of the available Windows Phones run on ARM processors, so you'd be halfway there. It remains to be seen how the rest of the teams with x86 architecture join together.

The news couldn't be better. Microsoft's mobile system application store has a much larger number of applications than is estimated to have the Windows Store, which, according to unofficial sources, would barely exceed 40,000. It is known that on Windows Phone there are more than 150 thousand applications available. Imagine having access to all of them at once from Windows 8, not to mention the ones that could arrive and the boost it would give development on both systems.

Via | ZDNet > WMPoweruser