Could they have done so, though? The idea of offering an App Store à la Apple has been in the air for ages, but it only saw the day a few years back. Imagine

Could they have done so, though? The idea of offering an App Store à la Apple has been in the air for ages, but it only saw the day a few years back. Imagine the outcry that would have occurred had MS decided to run an MS App Store while fighting off IE-related anti-trust issues in court.