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Windows Marketplace For Mobile Kill Switch Details
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft recently gave more details on Windows Marketplace for Mobile during the Tech Ed New Zealand 2009 session titled 'Distributing and Monetizing Applications through Windows Marketplace Mobile,' led by Loke Uei Tan, Senior Product Manager on the Windows Mobile Team. Geekzone covered the event in good detail, but one of their points caused a lot of uproar in the blogosphere: 'If an application is approved but later removed from the marketplace it will then be automatically removed from all mobile devices.' That sounded a bit ominous to Ars Technica, so they checked in with Microsoft. 'In the vast majority of instances where an application is removed from Windows Marketplace for Mobile, users of this application will continue to be able to use these applications on their phones,' a Microsoft spokesperson told Ars. 'In the rare event an application from Marketplace exhibits harmful behavior or has unforeseen effects, Marketplace has the capability to remotely uninstall these applications. While we hope to avoid this scenario, we will make refunds available in such cases.'"
Microsoft does heavy testing on any app before putting any sort of kill order up, and that applies to code flagged by Microsoft Security Essentials as well as any apps which will eventually find their way onto Windows Marketplace for Mobile.
Rest assured, this scenario won't happen.
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exhibits harmful behavior or has unforeseen effects
Doesn't sound like Windows Mobile and the Marketplace App are going to be with us for long.
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I'm confused, can you change the analogy to something involving a 4-wheeled motorized device?
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