Microsoft To Bring Windows 8 Marketplace In 180 Countries 69
First time accepted submitter mugi writes "The Microsoft Windows Marketplace was so far only available in 63 countries, and only 38 of those were allowed to submit apps. But now, Microsoft is planning on expanding that list considerably and has announced to bring the new Windows 8 Marketplace to over 180 countries at launch."
Firehose should have binspammed this (Score:4, Informative)
Just for comparison, from how many countries are users allowed to submit from to the Ubuntu Software Center?
All of them, including those which are not generally recognized (Somaliland, etc.) as independent states, provided they have an internet connection.
BTW, your question (a bit tongue-in-cheek) is just as newsworthy as TFA. Which is to say, not newsworthy at all.
Slashdot has descended too far down the slippery slope of perdition, and continues to plummet at a depressing speed. In days of yore, commercial propaganda stuff like this "story" would have been stopped in the firehose as binspam.