Posts Tagged ‘Marketplace’

Distimo: Games Perform Best on Windows Phone 7

November 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile, Platforms: Windows Phone, Research & Stats | No Comments »

Microsoft’s strategy to position Windows Phone 7 toward consumers seems to be working well as Games seem to be the most important part of the platform’s app portfolio.

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Windows Phone to launch with 2.000 apps!?

October 11th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

We are only hours away from the Windows Phone 7 launch and already our mailbox is stuffed with rumors. One of them says that Windows Marketplace for WP7 will be launching with 2.000 apps.

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Microsoft NL Speaks About Windows Phone 7 Launch

July 14th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

Maarten Sonneveld, Business Group Lead Mobile Communications at Microsoft Netherlands has announced that Microsoft NL regrets the unavailability of the Marketplace in The Netherlands.

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Windows Phone 7, More Revelations

June 2nd, 2010 by Roelof Posted in Platforms: Silverlight, Platforms: Windows Mobile, Platforms: XNA | 20 Comments »

Today, we visited the Windows Phone 7 Event in Maarssen (NL). Though we heard a lot of details we (or others) already wrote about, there are several revelations in this article you might not have heard about before…

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Windows Marketplace for Computers

November 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

Microsoft has launched a web interface for their Windows Phone Marketplace. Though consumers will browse and pay via their browsers, games will not be sideloaded but still installed over the air.

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Microsoft Introduces Zune in Europe

November 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: XNA | No Comments »

Microsoft has set the first step to warm up consumers for their Zune brand. Last Friday, the whole X-Box Live community received an e-mail detailing the arrival of Zune with the new 360 update

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Windows Marketplace to Launch on 6.x in November

October 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | 1 Comment »

Microsoft has announced that users of Windows 6.0 and 6.1 will be enjoying the launch of Windows Marketplace sooner then expected. They will see it enabled along November.

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Microsoft Reveals App Store Details

March 11th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | 1 Comment »

Today is a big day for Microsoft. The giant from Redmond has finally announced a big part of it's financial plans for their own App Store initiative, which they will release together with Windows Mobile 6.5.

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MWC: Microsoft Announces Windows Marketplace

February 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | 1 Comment »

Yet another “big one” over at the Mobile World Congress announced it's plans to release an “App Store”. This time it's Microsoft who will have it's Windows Marketplace ready when it will launch Windows Mobile 6.5.