Imagine this scenario. You buy a game for $4.99 and you really like it, but your wife sees you playing it and wants it too. Your options are to a) hand your tablet to your wife (when you're not playing it), b) log your wife into her tablet with your credentials (never the right choice and not even possible on other operating systems ;), or c) make sure you're using Windows 8 because the Windows Store has a elegant solution for this scenario.

The policy for the Windows Store is that when you get an app (whether it's free or $999) you can install it on up to 5 PCs. The interesting thing is that those don't have to be your PCs. Here's the scoop…

1. Have your wife log in to her PC (as her!) and go to the Store
2. Pull out the Charms bar (I still love that gesture!) and hit Settings | Your account
3. Hit Change user and log in with your Microsoft account
4. Install your app
5. Go back to Settings | Your account and hit Change user again to get your credentials out

This is a tremendous advantage to the Windows Store, and it's not even the only advantage Microsoft's platform has over the competition. If you want to see the details of Licensing apps, you can read this blog post.

Enjoy!

If you’re interested in learning how to write apps for Windows 8 but don’t want to leave your desk to do it, then I have just the thing for you. They’re called HOLOs. That’s a Hands-On Lab Online. It goes like this.

First, you register and then when the event comes around, you log in and are hooked up with a Live Meeting to a presenter and a bunch of other attendees and also with a Hyper-V session to a Windows 8 virtual machine with all of the course work ready to go. You listen to the presenter for a while, and then you run through the labs with the instructor right there and ready to help when you raise your virtual hand.

There are sessions on a myriad of Windows 8 related subjects including…

• Creating a Windows 8 App
• Orientation, Snapping, and Semantic Zoom
• Searching and Sharing
• The Windows Store
• Application Bars and Media Capture
• Settings and Preferences

And each of those subjects has separate, dedicated online sessions for C# and JavaScript.

Go register now to save your spot. I created a short URL to a search of all of the HOLOs being offered – http://aka.ms/holo.

I’m going to be presenting a number of the JavaScript courses, so I’ll see you online!