Microsoft has announced on Twitter that there are now more than 100,000 apps in the Windows 8 store, six times more than the number currently on offer to Mac App Store users.  The company has worked with some 10,000 developers to reach this figure, with Foursquare and OpenTable among the latest Windows 8 releases for PC and tablet users.

But the platform has not yet fulfilled the dream of being ‘screen agnostic’ – working directly across PCs, tablets, smartphones and games consoles. It has been announced that the first ever official Facebook app for Windows 8 is being developed for tablet and PC owners, for example, while Facebook is already testing version 5.0 of its Windows Phone app. 

Efforts announced at Microsoft’s Build 2013 last week should help developers create apps that can be deployed on both Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8, the company has said. 

Windows 8 or Windows Phone 8?

Disney has just released a range of apps available on both Windows 8 and Windows Phone, including Temple Run: Brave and Where’s My Mickey? downloadable separately for each platform. While a PayPal SDK has also been announced so developers can integrate payments into a Windows Store app or Windows Phone 8 apps. 

Speaking after Build 2013, Frank X. Shaw, corporate VP of corporate communications, indicated that greater cross-platform integration is still the companys goal. “Microsoft’s vision for the future is one of an amazing array of computing devices of all types, sizes and price points running incredibly compelling services for work and play that are constantly updating and syncing across PC, tablet, phone, TV and other devices via the Cloud.”