Bangalore: There are millions of people eagerly waiting for some of the popular apps like Angry Birds, Disney digital books and Cut the rope to be released for Windows 8 version, but there are many who are far more interested to know how and when enterprise apps are going to show up for the next Windows release as per an article by Mary Jo Foley in zdnet.com

Developers can either build Metro-style or WinRT versions of their apps if they are interested in making their enterprise apps run on x86/x64 Windows 8 tablets and PCs or they can expect users to run those apps via the Windows 8 Desktop. And if the developers want these enterprise apps to run on windows 8 on ARM tablets and PCs they cannot go the desktop route, as Microsoft recently announced to limit the Desktop on WOA to hosting only Office 15, Internet Explorer 10 (without plug-in support), File Explorer and some other Windows components.

Windows chief Steven Sinofsky has suggested two possible ways for developers going the Metro-style route he said that developers can either build a Metro-style/WinRT-based for their app that will connect to back-end servers via a Web services application programming interface (API), or they can reuse chunks of their existing code wrapped in a “Metro-style experience.”

In one of his blogs Sinofsky said that “Many apps will be best served by building new Metro style front ends for existing data sources or applications, and communicating through a web services API. This approach will be quite common for line-of-business applications and many consumer web properties, and represents the best way to tap into the power of a rich user interaction model where you can also interact across and share information with other new apps. Of course, these do not need to be just front-ends, but could operate on local data too, since WOA provides full access to files and peripherals. Other existing applications will be well served by reusing large amounts of engine or runtime code, and surrounding that with a Metro style experience. This will take some time, and represents a way for applications that are composed of significant intellectual property to move to WOA and WinRT.”

A technology evangelist Brandon George recently found out that Microsoft is planning to deliver a Windows 8 version of its Dynamics AX 7 Client in the year 2013 or 2014 that would be compatible with the enterprise apps.