{"id":19964,"date":"2011-04-29T10:24:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T08:24:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-04-29T10:24:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T08:24:00","slug":"windows-phone-marketplace-coming-to-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/19964-windows-phone-marketplace-coming-to-sa.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows Phone Marketplace coming to SA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft South Africa launched it’s Windows Phone 7 offering in South Africa towards the end of 2010<\/a> with devices from HTC becoming available shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n

However, just as with Android devices and the iPhone, South African Windows Phone 7 users found their use of the platform’s application marketplace restricted.<\/p>\n

Windows Phone 7 users in South Africa are unable to get “paid-for” applications from Windows Phone Marketplace, a restriction similar to that faced by local Android users.<\/p>\n

According to Microsoft, South African developers have also not been able to sell and distribute their applications using Windows Phone Marketplace.<\/p>\n

This is all set to change in 2011, however.<\/p>\n

Speaking at Microsoft’s MIX conference held earlier this month, Microsoft’s corporate vice-president of Windows Phone programme management, Joe Belfiore, highlighted the company’s plans for expanding the Windows Phone Marketplace footprint.<\/p>\n

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Firstly, Belfiore said that Microsoft plan to expand the number of countries, where apps can be created, from 30 to 36 (though the slide indicated it to be 38 countries).<\/p>\n

“So there’ll be a wider range of places around the world where you can submit apps to Marketplace,” Belfiore said.<\/p>\n

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Secondly, Microsoft plans to increase the number of countries from where you can buy applications on Windows Phone Marketplace from 16 to 35.<\/p>\n

In both instances, Belfiore’s slides indicated that South Africa is one of the countries included in Microsoft’s plans.<\/p>\n

According to Belfiore these changes are due to coincide with Windows Phone 7’s “Mango” update which is due “this fall” [September – November 2011].<\/p>\n

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