Summary: Ted Dworkin and Tim Huckaby discuss “the most significant opportunity in history for developers” – Windows 8. Learn how the Windows Store was designed and developed to support this unprecedented opportunity. App names are being reserved. Visit GenerationApp for design tips and development tools to help get your app to market.Ready to Get Started? Visit the Windows Developer Center for a myriad of sample, docs and guidelinesJoin the GenerationApp program and get a jumpstart building your Windows Store app. About Ted Ted Dworkin is Partner Director of Program Management for the Windows Store and Windows.com. He joined Microsoft in 1994 in what was then the Consumer Division, working for 7 years on Encarta educational products as they transitioned from CD to DVD to the Web. He has worked in Windows since 2001, always in areas related to web services and experiences. Outside of work, he spends as much time as possible with his wife and three children, trains for triathlons in the wee hours, and is on the board of 826Seattle.org, a non-profit writing and homework support center for kids. Prior to joining Microsoft, Ted worked for Gary Larson, creator of The Far Side, an internationally syndicated cartoon.About Tim Tim Huckaby is focused on the Natural User Interface (NUI) in Rich Client and Rich Internet Application (RIA) Technologies like Silverlight & WPF on the computer, the Surface, and Windows Phone 7. He has been called a "Pioneer of the Smart Client Revolution" by the press. Tim has been awarded multiple times for the highest rated Keynote and technical presentations for Microsoft and numerous other technology conferences around the world by Microsoft Corporation. Tim has done presentations on Microsoft technologies at technology events like Microsoft Tech Ed, Product Launch events, Dev Days, MEC, World Wide Partner Conference, MGB, MGX, and the PDC, along with 3rd party technology conferences all over the world is consiste
