Microsoft to Merge Windows Store and Windows Phone Store

<p>According to a report by <em>The Verge<&sol;em>&comma; Microsoft will merge its Windows Store and Windows Phone Store into one unified app store&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If sources who are &&num;8220&semi;familiar with the company&&num;8217&semi;s plans&&num;8221&semi; are to be believed&comma; Terry Myerson&comma; head of the operating systems group&comma; revealed the plan during an internal company meeting yesterday that was attended by thousands of Microsoft employees&period; According to the sources&comma; Microsoft plans to unify both app stores in the next releases of Windows and Windows Phone&comma; which are understood to be a special update for Windows 8&period;1 and Windows Phone 8&period;1&period; Both are due to be available in spring 2014&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Unfortunately&comma; we don&&num;8217&semi;t know how the unified app store will work&period; In addition&comma; with the rumored unification&comma; we don&&num;8217&semi;t know if this means that Windows Phone apps can run on Windows&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s assumed that phone apps might be able to scale up to run on a tablet&comma; much like with iPhone apps on an iPad&period; We should know Microsoft&&num;8217&semi;s plans soon enough&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;Source&colon; <em><a title&equals;"Windows" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;theverge&period;com&sol;2013&sol;9&sol;26&sol;4774082&sol;microsoft-planning-single-windows-store-across-phone-pc" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">The Verge<&sol;a><&sol;em> via <a title&equals;"Windows" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;slashgear&period;com&sol;microsoft-reportedly-to-merge-windows-store-and-windows-phone-store-into-single-offering-26299361&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer"><em>Slashgear<&sol;em><&sol;a>&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;