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Just when you thought Microsoft had all but forgotten that PCs were anything more than a tool for designing Xbox games, some design sketches for Windows 8 are leaked and they're full of pictures of the PC with love hearts on. More importantly, a casual gaming store.
The slides , fished from a dumpster by Engadget , depict the futuristic app store as being easy to use and very prominent in the Windows 8 landscape. There isn't the slightest indication that it'll cause you to bleed from your eyes. This shows a marked shift in design strategy for Microsoft's PC games services. The slides are quite developer oriented - boasting that it'll let you have your studio's logo on the store page and that the vetting process for apps is very streamlined - but it's important to attract developers to the PC.
