Microsoft makes the b lwa ta of Windows 8 in late February, after which the Store with selected free apps directly accessible. Developers will get 70 or 80 percent of the revenue of paid apps.
Microsoft lifted up a corner of the veil from the Windows 8 Store during a press event in San Francisco. Also, the company announced that the public beta of Windows 8 sometime at the end of February will start. Which version will the Store contain. The apps in the Store are during the test period free of charge. Adding apps to the Store is done on the basis of invitation. Microsoft makes a selection of apps that developers have until January 8, 2012 in can send to the Windows 8 First Apps Contest.
At the final Store uses Microsoft with a key of 70 versus 30 percent for apps that are less than $ 25,000 bringing. For more successful apps with a turnover of more than $ 25,000, pays Microsoft developers 80 percent of the revenue from that amount. Microsoft hopes a financially more attractive alternative to offer than Apple, that a standaardbetaalmodel of 70 versus 30 percent uses. Google is counting, however, only 5 percent of the price of sold apps in its Chrome Web Store.
The software company from Redmond was also made known that the possibility of free trial versions of apps are going to offer. Users can set the paid apps free try out, and then they have to buy one can go without a new version having to download. Also in-app-purchases are possible. Search engine Bing will apps explicitly include in the search results and Internet Explorer 10, which is a part of Windows 8, a dedicated app button.
It will Store multiple payment methods support, says Antoine LeBlond, of Microsoft in a blogposting. Microsoft demonstrated apps with own abonnementensystemen and an eBay app with Paypal integration. Also get apps, the ability to use advertising revenue to collect, which they are free in the choice of the advertising platform.