Windows Phone Marketplace: now open for all submissions

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By Daniel Rubino
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Back a few weeks ago, Microsoft opened the Marketplace to developers for a pre-approval process. They intended to accept "a few thousand" participating early certification developers during this period in order to launch the store in an orderly pace as well as to guarantee some the big developers get featured.

Now, the Marketplace has flung open its doors to the masses, enabling the self-serving submission process which should mean a flood of more apps and games over the next couple of weeks. It will be interesting to see how much of an increase we see.

Source: @DanielEgan

Daniel Rubino
Daniel Rubino
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Daniel Rubino is the Editor-in-chief of Windows Central. He is also the head reviewer, podcast co-host, and analyst. He has been covering Microsoft since 2007, when this site was called WMExperts (and later Windows Phone Central). His interests include Windows, laptops, next-gen computing, and watches. He has been reviewing laptops since 2015 and is particularly fond of 2-in-1 convertibles, ARM processors, new form factors, and thin-and-light PCs. Before all this tech stuff, he worked on a Ph.D. in linguistics, watched people sleep (for medical purposes!), and ran the projectors at movie theaters because it was fun.