Windows 8將在不久後發布一個公開的測試版，來自微軟官方消息稱他們已經組建了正式的App Store團隊，未來的Win8系統中會有一個應用程序商店來直接提供應用，微軟在MSDN的博客中還介紹了開發Windows 8的各個小組名字，App Store赫然在目以下是列表：
App Compatibility and Device Compatibility
App Store
Applications and Media Experience
App Experience
Core Experience Evolved
Device Connectivity
Devices &Networking Experience
Ecosystem Fundamentals
Engineer Desktop
Engineering System
Enterprise Networking
Global Experience
Graphics Platform
Hardware Developer Experience
Human Interaction Platform
Hyper-V
In Control of Your PC
Kernel Platform
Licensing and Deployment
Media Platform
Networking Core
Performance
Presentation and Composition
Reliability, Security, and Privacy
Runtime Experience
Search, View, and Command
Security &Identity
Storage &Files Systems
Sustained Engineering
Telemetry
User-Centered Experience
Windows Online
Windows Update
Wireless and Networking services
XAML
