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Over 40,000 apps now at Windows Phone Market Place!


Besides just grabbing massive attention of the users and the people over the past one year or so, the Windows phone platform is massively growing in popularity amongst the designers and developers who have begun to prefer the Windows platform over others. 

Software giant Microsoft has reached another milestone, as Windows market place now has more than 40,000 apps in its Arsenal. Some facts about the app marketplace are as follows: 

1) Amongst the 40,000 apps and games, there are about 10,000 different publishers and developers.

2) 33% of the total apps and games have been added in the past 3 months.

3) Out of the total 40,000 , about 85% are apps, and about 15 percent are games.

4) 68% apps and games are free downloads, 23% are paid and the remaining 9 percent are the ones that require payment after a certain trial period. 

The amazing thing about the Windows market place is that the apps and games are being added at a massive rate of about 160 per day. This is huge! Huge in the sense that the marketplace itself was launched just a year back in October 2010! 

Microsoft is most likely to get an added boost when AT&T, who are currently in talks to offer windows Nokia Smart phones to users in the US next year.



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