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Marketplace for Mobile is a service by Microsoft for its Windows Mobile
platform that allows users to browse and download applications that have
been developed by third-parties. The application are available for use
directly on Windows Mobile 6.5 devices, and on personal computers. It
was announced at the 2009 Mobile World Congress, and began operation on
6 October, 2009, featuring an initial 246 applications. Initially it is
available only for Windows Mobile 6.5, and was made available to all 6.x
versions few weeks later. On February 15th, 2010 Microsoft announced its
next generation mobile platform named Windows Phone 7. With this newly
redesigned platform, Microsoft will use a separate app store, called
Windows Phone Marketplace, for its new mobile OS, and will not share the
same apps, UI, or some features of the current version for Windows
Mobile 6.x because of the many differences in user interface and
experience between these two platforms.
