[vxNsr]

--Could you (or someone) explain what benefit microsoft would see in this type of pm over the app store that comes with windows 8?

This looks like the type of side project that gets killed once it gains too much momentum and a low level exec gets wind of its possible trajectory.

Because really, if you're looking at the current strategy, it's moving away from this type of dev stuff and more towards easy-to-use-and-fun-GUI stuff. At last year's build I remember them showing a way to put private corporate apps in their store that would only be available with a special key or something. So while I'd love this, it seems doubtful that they'd ever really give something like this too much air.--

EDIT::

I stand corrected, apparently even though they're using google groups and google code for hosting, OneGet was actually demoed at Build2014 and they're working with Chocolatey to get it working. I'm blown away at the amo0unt of commitment and effort already expended, it might be a new Microsoft after all!

[Maakuth]

There is no way of delivering classic Windows apps (non-Metro, that is) through app store. That might be fine for consumer users in a couple of years if there's a decent offering of great Metro apps, but I doubt Visual Studio is ever going to go Metro.

I don't think they need to invest billions in such thing, even acknowledging chocolatey and not making life worse for it is a good and useful thing for them to do.

[blackoil]

These targets developer and tech savvy users who prefer command line over GUI, no reason it can't act as interface for store also.