As part of Windows 10, Microsoft will consolidate its multiple app stores and for the first time offer an app volume purchase program.

Microsoft will be following in the footsteps of its OS rival Apple, which introduced volume purchasing programs for both business and education — the latter an important market of the iPad — last year.

The disclosure of Microsoft’s volume purchasing program seemed to have been premature: A long blog that on Wednesday revealed details of the store consolidation, volume purchasing program and enterprise-created “stores-within-the-Windows-Store” was deleted earlier today.

On Tuesday, the Redmond, Wash. company sketched out some of the features and UI changes of its new Windows 10 during an hour-long presentation. There, executives briefly highlighted the upcoming changes to Windows Store, Microsoft’s umbrella term for its app markets.

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