Microsoft finally announced the official launch of its " Office Store " . The app Store is focused on content management, data visualization, financial management, project management, sales & marketing, HR, education, travel, social etc.
The lifecycle for an app is easily managed from the Seller Dashboard. You can see how your app is faring (page views, downloads of trials (or free versions) and purchases). If you want to rollout upgrades to an app, you update the app on the Seller Dashboard and existing users will get notified through an in-app notification. The upgrade process itself will be seamless for users, no downloading a new installable. The cloud app model is designed for ease of upgrades. Pay attention as well to the description & iconography you submit, and to the feedback users are giving you via your own site or via reviews.
licensing framework has been designed with cloud apps in mind, where protecting the bits is not as important as protecting the content of the app. Most apps today are connected to services; services provide, transmit, and process content and that is where the real value and expense resides as services cost money to run. Think about it, how long does it take someone to hack the latest phone or tablet? Weeks? Days? Hours? And once a device is hacked it becomes easy to circumvent licensing or security of the app bits. A licensing framework optimized for services would fix this issue.
The lifecycle for an app is easily managed from the Seller Dashboard. You can see how your app is faring (page views, downloads of trials (or free versions) and purchases). If you want to rollout upgrades to an app, you update the app on the Seller Dashboard and existing users will get notified through an in-app notification. The upgrade process itself will be seamless for users, no downloading a new installable. The cloud app model is designed for ease of upgrades. Pay attention as well to the description & iconography you submit, and to the feedback users are giving you via your own site or via reviews.
licensing framework has been designed with cloud apps in mind, where protecting the bits is not as important as protecting the content of the app. Most apps today are connected to services; services provide, transmit, and process content and that is where the real value and expense resides as services cost money to run. Think about it, how long does it take someone to hack the latest phone or tablet? Weeks? Days? Hours? And once a device is hacked it becomes easy to circumvent licensing or security of the app bits. A licensing framework optimized for services would fix this issue.