A team of Microsoft evangelists and developers in China has developed a proof-of-concept app aimed at making Windows 8 app sideloading of business apps more palatable.
From All About Microsoft:
From All About Microsoft:
Windows 8 app sideloading has been largely at a standstill since Microsoft first outlined its strategy for allowing business users to install line-of-business apps without publishing through the Windows Store.BootyBay: One Microsoft team's attempt to fix Windows 8's sideloading problems
Small- and mid-size developers have found Microsoft's sideloading requirements particularly onerous. Licensing requirements are prohibitive, as are costs, as has been well documented by Magenic Chief Technology Officer Rockford Lhotka and a handful of others.
