Microsoft to WP7 Third party application developers pay in advance

Microsoft announced in Thursday that it would adjust the revenue-sharing time for http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13466.html ">windows Phone Marketplace App Store, The revenue share for application sales will be paid to third-party application developers in advance.

According to the original plan, Microsoft will be the first time next February to pay the application developers to share income. Since the Windows Phone Marketplace App Store started selling apps at the end of October this year, Third-party app developers have yet to receive revenue sharing. In the meantime, however, Microsoft has been completing the payment system for the Windows Phone Marketplace App Store.

In its official blog, released in Thursday, Microsoft said it would pay the application sales split to Third-party application developers in the fourth week of January 2011. After that, Microsoft said it would pay a monthly application sales share to third-party application developers. The Windows Phone Marketplace App Store sells Windows Mobile 6.X and Windows phone 7 apps and games, all of which will receive revenue sharing.

Microsoft also launched a copy of the sales program in the form of a reporting tool in Thursday, allowing application developers to learn more about the sales performance of their apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace App Store. The sales program can subdivide the number of applications downloaded, how many users have paid, how many users have not yet paid, and where the buyer comes from, and so on. However, Microsoft did not disclose whether the sales program will be updated daily.

Todd Brix, senior director of Microsoft Windows Phone Marketplace, says Microsoft has been listening to criticism from Third-party developers on the app hub of the developer Web site, Tode Brix. The APP hub is the portal for Windows Phone 7 and the Xbox Live developer. Here, developers can get development tools, support resources, submit and manage their Windows Phone and Xbox Live apps. "We know very well that you are not satisfied with the registration and submission process, which is frustrating for too many developers," Blix said. In response, over the past two months, we have done a great deal of tinkering and strengthening of these procedures. ”

Blix also said that the current 91% of applications submitted to Microsoft after two days, will be certified and released. Currently, the number of registered developers has reached 18,000. In addition, the Windows Phone Marketplace App Store now has nearly 4,000 apps, adding 1000 more than the Windows Phone 7 OS released at the end of October this year.

Windows phone 7 has been in operation for one months, but Microsoft has been tight-lipped sales figures. Joe Belfiore, vice president of Microsoft, said this week that the company was satisfied with the results of Windows Phone 7 's sales Chow Belfiori.