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Microsoft To Bring Windows 8 Marketplace In 180 Countries

Posted by samzenpus on from the check-the-list dept.

First time accepted submitter mugi writes "The Microsoft Windows Marketplace was so far only available in 63 countries, and only 38 of those were allowed to submit apps. But now, Microsoft is planning on expanding that list considerably and has announced to bring the new Windows 8 Marketplace to over 180 countries at launch."

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  1. Microsoft by kthreadd · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Just for comparison, from how many countries are users allowed to submit from to the Ubuntu Software Center?

  2. 180 marketplaces? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's nice. I will not buy anything in any of them.

  3. Firehose should have binspammed this by AliasMarlowe · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just for comparison, from how many countries are users allowed to submit from to the Ubuntu Software Center?

    All of them, including those which are not generally recognized (Somaliland, etc.) as independent states, provided they have an internet connection.
    BTW, your question (a bit tongue-in-cheek) is just as newsworthy as TFA. Which is to say, not newsworthy at all.

    Slashdot has descended too far down the slippery slope of perdition, and continues to plummet at a depressing speed. In days of yore, commercial propaganda stuff like this "story" would have been stopped in the firehose as binspam.

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    Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
  4. Re:and only US will buy by oztiks · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I quite like the MS marketplace is as, it's like AppStore minus the shit.