If you’ve not known, Microsoft has been fighting with Apple for quite some time over the “App Store trademark, even before Amazon go and name their new online app store the Amazon App Store, which got themselves a letter from Apple as we’ve already known.

Now we may be able to slightly guess what Redmond has been so consistently fighting to prevent Apple from getting that sole right to use that popular term. Hopefully this is not some crude and late April fool joke. Chinese site cnBeta’s been busy dishing out alleged screenshots of Windows 8 at its infancy, and the latest seem to be rather wacky. It appears that Microsoft’s next flagship OS will be shipped with its very own built-in app store, which is simply dubbed Windows App Store at this stage.

As with previous Windows milestone builds, the final appearance may differ slightly, but word has it that this new store’s passed its internal tests and will soon go beta. While it’s too early to tell, here’s hoping that this feature will open the floodgate to a whole bunch of cheaper Windows software.

SOURCE via Ars Technica