Windows 8 is coming, and apparently its bringing a Windows 8 app store with it. Speculation that began with hints of an app store in leaked builds of Windows 8 earlier this year have been all but officially confirmed in a blog post from the President of Microsoft’s Windows and Windows Live divisions, Steven Sinofsky.

To be clear, Sinofsky did not say, “Yes. Windows 8 will definitely have an app store component.” What Sinofsky did was to list all of the various development teams currently working hard to create the next generation of the flagship desktop OS. It just so happens that one of the development teams on that list is “App Store”.