Major news: Windows Phone app store is open to Chinese developers !!

According to the Windows Phone developer blog (http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/ B /wpdev/archive/2011/10/18/marketplace-comes-to-china-amp-india-also-improves-search-and-7-0-amp-7-5-app-update-options.aspx ),Microsoft announced today that marketplace is open to developers in China and India! For contestants in the September "Mango" warm-up competition, we will send an email next week to inform you of how to get the developer account reimbursement.

 

Extended to China and India

We are pleased to announce that Chinese developers can now register a developer account through the app Hub (http://create.msdn.com) and start uploading apps, so that all supported application market countries can download (Chinese users cannot download now ). This will bring Windows Phone opportunities to thousands of talented and creative developers.

 

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Expansion in China & India
To start, we're pleased to announce that as of today developers in China can now register via app hub and begin submitting apps for availability in any of our supported marketplace countries (sorry, not including China at this time ). this opens up the Windows Phone opportunity to the tens-of-thousands of talented and creative developers in China.