Marketplace & Mango

With the recent release of the Windows Phone 7.5 update, code named Mango, Microsoft also released the Windows Phone Marketplace (http://www.windowsphone.com/marketplace). This is pretty big news for all of the WP7 users out there–although there were some 3rd party sites that would host some basic information about the available marketplace apps, none of them were full featured and didn’t really allow you to discover any great apps through their interface. The official WP7 marketplace provides all of the same information that was previously available only from Zune or WP7 marketplace app, and really makes the experience of looking for interesting apps much more useful. I’m excited about the work the Windows Phone team has put into this latest release, things can only get better from here. Hopefully the WP7 will be able to grab a larger share of the market as a result of this hard work.

In other news…

Although I didn’t make an announcement or blog post about it, the sc2 Forum Reader app has also been recently published to the marketplace. I’ll put up a post in a few days or so, but for now you can check out the app directly in the new WP7 marketplace: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/c3754510-58c7-4e0d-a9f5-a831797e7085.

Check out all my of apps in the marketplace here: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/search?q=johnhforrest.com