windows marketplace | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Wed, 23 May 2012 06:55:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png windows marketplace | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 Microsoft drops Marketplace support for older Windows phones https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/blair-mcclelland/microsoft-drops-marketplace-support-for-older-windows-phones/ https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/blair-mcclelland/microsoft-drops-marketplace-support-for-older-windows-phones/#respond Wed, 23 May 2012 09:32:52 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=91965 All good (and bad) things eventually have to meet their fate and today some Windows Mobile and Phone marketplaces meet theirs. Those running on the ancient Windows Mobile platform will no longer have access to the official Marketplace starting from today. If you do happen to have a unmodified HTC HD2 laying around now would …

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All good (and bad) things eventually have to meet their fate and today some Windows Mobile and Phone marketplaces meet theirs. Those running on the ancient Windows Mobile platform will no longer have access to the official Marketplace starting from today. If you do happen to have a unmodified HTC HD2 laying around now would be the time to update applications – if it isn't too late already.

Of course, those applications which are already downloaded will be unaffected once the Marketplace shutdown has taken effect. Also, third party application stores will continue to work as normal. The shutdown comes about even though some analysts believe Windows Mobile outsold the more modern Windows Phone 7 platform for much of 2011.

Microsoft is shutting down the Marketplace for a couple of older mobile operating systems today

That' not everything though, Windows Phone 7.5 is now required to access the Windows Phone marketplace. The 7.5 “Mango” update was released late last year and due to manufacturers and carriers getting their software updates sorted for once, all Windows Phone smartphones should already be on the Mango update. If not, you will start to see error messages when trying to access the Marketplace. If you're not sure what version you are running on your Windows Phone device refer to the FAQs.

KitGuru says: Dropping support for old (yet near extinct) code and focussing on upcoming updates, well done Microsoft. We wish Google and its Android supporters picked up on your mentalities.

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Windows Phone marketplace reaches 50,000 app milestone https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/carl/windows-phone-marketplace-reaches-50000-app-milestone/ https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/carl/windows-phone-marketplace-reaches-50000-app-milestone/#comments Wed, 28 Dec 2011 09:52:04 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=71852 The Windows Marketplace has reached a milestone of 50,000 applications. This achievement however is only one tenth of the Apple iOS store, and much less than the 400,000 applications on the Android Market. Microsoft will be pleased with the quick growth, taking only 14 months of operation to reach the milestone figure. The Android Market …

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The Windows Marketplace has reached a milestone of 50,000 applications. This achievement however is only one tenth of the Apple iOS store, and much less than the 400,000 applications on the Android Market.

Microsoft will be pleased with the quick growth, taking only 14 months of operation to reach the milestone figure. The Android Market took 19 months to reach 50,000 applications and iOS took 12 months.

All About Windows Phone said that the Microsoft store is being loaded with 265 new pieces of software daily. They said ““The 50,000 mark, which has been reached sooner than we estimated, is a key milestone, but more important is the accelerating growth of the Marketplace. It took just over a year to get to 40,000 apps, but just 40 days to add the next 10,000 apps. That bodes well for Windows Phone in 2012.”

According to the report, 58 percent of the items in the Windows Phone Marketplace are free, 14 percent are paid for with a free trial and 29 percent are fully paid for items. The most popular sector of software is the entertainment arena.

Kitguru says: Healthy growth for Windows Phone, and the next 12 months will be critical for the platform.

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