Microsoft's earlier online store for downloading free and paid Windows Phone applications from third-party developers. Launched in October 2010 as Windows Phone Marketplace, there were 5,000 apps ...

Sometimes, a platform can die without actually dying. For example, a company can stop producing certain products but still ...

Microsoft has an app store, too, for Windows Phone. But as it stands today, there just aren't a lot of good apps. The apps that are on this store tend to be pale imitations of the ones that users ...