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Posted by Sam Reynolds — December 7th, 2011, 11:18 AM

Microsoft gave developers a sneak peek at their new iTunes style ‘Windows Store’ last night in San Francisco, making the first time the new concept has been demonstrated since it was introduced at the BUILD conference in September.

The Windows Store will sell “Metro-style” apps. Microsoft Metro is the design language of the “live tile” icons for apps that first made an appearance in 2010 on the Windows Phone 7 OS, and is making its way over to the Xbox 360 via a software update.

Customers won’t be able to access the Windows Store until February, when Windows 8 is expected to be released.

Check out the video preview below:

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  • Trhnpo

    Credibility dropped to 0 at 0:17 “We want to return as much money as we can in the hands of the developers”. -Microsoft

  • Anonymous

    It’s spelled “peek”

  • Mr.V

    Hope it’s better than the awful awful Zune store for Windows 7 apps. What an unorganized mess.

  • http://twitter.com/thesamreynolds Sam Reynolds

    Yes, thank you for pointing out the typo. Silly really.

  • razamatraz

    Windows 8 so far looks like it will be to 7 what Vista was to XP…the bloated idiot brother.