Yesterday at the excellent keynote at Build, Steve Ballmer clarified the importance of building great apps for the Windows platform. To back it, Microsoft provided all attendees with a Surface – if we promised to develop lots of apps. With the keynote in mind I searched the Windows Store for the Build App – I couldn’t find it. Instead I tried the Build website (www.buildwindows.com) on my Surface. I quickly realized that some part of the website was built with touch in mind – but certainly not most of it.
So my question to Microsoft is pretty simple: Why haven’t you build an awesome Build app that would inspire developers to build great apps?
You have a really strong support in your knights (the MVPs) that most definitely would have built it for you.
UPDATE (2012-11-02):
The Build app is now available at the Windows Store.
Build 2012 app for Windows in the Windows Store
http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/app/0c51433d-4d6b-4e51-a274-86611f732fca
Learn more about Build 2012 by Microsoft Corporation and download it from the Windows Store
// thomas
thomas martinsen 