Mac App Store Pre-Installed Applications

1. Will pre-App Store installed Applications be eligible for upgrade monitoring? My hunches tell me 'no,' but it would be nice.
2. I don't like the fact that Customer Reviews for an app is only available if you purchased it via the App Store. It would be nice if I could review apps that are recognized as "Installed" on my machine as well.
Thanks!

The App Store relies on the Bundle ID and the Version Number of your already installed Application to 'match' that of the version that is on the App Store.
So if one or both of these numbers is different, the App Store will not 'match' them and show you it is installed.
This will only come online, once the developer of the App makes there 'old' way of updating the same as the version they have supplied the App Store with, presumably, this will happen with time.
My example was Text Wrangler. It showed not installed even though it was on my computer, I did the update of the software the 'old' way and still not showing installed. Having a look, the developer updated me to version 3.2 the 'old' way, but had given the App Store version 3.5, so the version numbers were not matching. This being a Free app. I installed it from the App Store, it over wrote the 'old' install I had on my computer and once that was complete, the app Store showed it as installed.
So until the developers (including Apple developers) bring their 'old' updates inline with what they have supplied the App Store, they will not show up correctly on the Store.
That being said, nearly every Application has a 'check for updates' section and most of these can be set up to be automatically checking, so as long as the developers continue to support this 'old' style of updating, your apps will still stay current.

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