Windows Phone Marketplace Announced

Windows Phone Marketplace Announced

Techtree News Staff, Mar 16, 2010 1710 hrs IST

Microsoft makes another announcement at the ongoing MIX10

At the ongoing MIX10 conference at Las Vegas, Microsoft has officially announced the rebranding of the Windows Mobile Marketplace to an obvious moniker, Windows Phone Marketplace.

While we all knew this was coming, little was known how the UI and the entire store would look like. Now, that is a thing of the past with Microsoft releasing quite a few screenshots of the Store with details.

According to Microsoft, The Windows Phone Marketplace will have "a panoramic design and active merchandising", and will support operator billing. This means, if Microsoft has a tie up with your service provider, you can be billed for the apps on your monthly bill. There will be one-time card purchases and ad-funded applications as well. Customers will also be able to try apps before purchasing - which is obviously a very good thing.

Microsoft has also announced free development tools for Windows Phone 7 Series like Silverlight, XNA Game Studio 4.0, Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone, Windows Phone 7 Series Emulator (for app testing), and a Windows Phone 7 Series add-in. The apps will support accelerometers, hardware-accelerated video, multi-touch, Microsoft Location Service and Microsoft Notification Service.

Developers might want to head here to see what goodies are available for them.

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(8) Comments

Osama

,Montreal, on Mar 16, 2010 07:21 PM

History repeat itself, every time Apple raises the standard for a certain technology, Microsoft start creating copies! "Redmond, Start Your Photocopiers?"

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Nishant

,Hyderabad, on Mar 17, 2010 12:25 PM

It must really hurt to see 'copies' outsell the 'original'. Eh? How about Apple's iPad...an oversized copy of its own iPhone/ iPod touch. Apple boys this is where you clap....

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noname

,Toronto, on Mar 16, 2010 06:32 PM

Visual Studios on a phone? :S how are you supposed to use it on a freaking phone?

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Nishant

,Hyderabad, on Mar 17, 2010 12:21 PM

You really aren't bright. Are you? Read again...

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Peter Pettigrew

,Hogwarts, on Mar 16, 2010 06:09 PM

it's sooo ugly!!!! iphone is A TON BETTER