Yes it’s finally here, Micro$oft have finally gone online in the US with their Store. I’m going to have to admit, that I assumed an online store from Microsoft, would focus on windows mobile, but we all know what happens when we assume… 

It’s definitely not a Windows Mobile application store, it is your cloud conduit to all things windows except Mobile . I would have thought that the Zune store/marketplace would have been sucked up into this vortex, as well, but the Zune is only available as entertainment hardware at the store.

The store is almost everything windows PC, except for XBox, Zune and games. Go figure?

It offers great advantages for the greener consumers out there, no packaging, you can get your software over the air, and do away with all of those great big plastic boxes that M$ still insist on putting a DVD/installation CD in. With the store you create an account and buy online, and all of your details are there, you can re-download, and recover product keys at your leisure. You can still request the hard copy of your software, M$ still offers this antiquarian service, although they are moving further into the Cloud.

M$ can’t hope to emulate iTunes with this portal, let’s face it they are late to the party, but if you are a PC, this is probably welcome news, sorry to see, as far as OS’s go, Vista is the be all and end all, my XP Eee is spitting at me as I type this

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Microsoft Opens Online Store in the US | GottaBeMobile.com