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."
Re:and only US will buy (Score:4, Insightful)
I quite like the MS marketplace is as, it's like AppStore minus the shit.
Microsoft (Score:5, Interesting)
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all of them
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Ah, but that is only 150 and something.
Microsoft has just created 30 countries on Mars, so that you have more options with the Windows Marketplace.
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This feels like a loaded question ^^
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.
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In "Days of Yore," there was no stinkin' firehose, and it wasn't needed. It was two steps up from being Cmdr Taco's blog, and it featured what interested him. I say that not with derision but with fond affection and remembrance.
Of course, it got a bazillion pageviews, made no money, and then started to be copied by other sites who *wanted* to make money, so it was either take the paid slashvertisements or get steamrolled.
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...then he employed his stoner dropout friends as 'editors', they replaced themselves with very small shell scripts, he married his bucktoothed farmgirl and it was happy ever after.
Honestly, I only come here for the trolls and lulz these days.
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Perhaps a better question is how many are capable of doing so and who's definition of a a 'country' do you want to use. Microsoft not making available a store to a country that doesn't exist according to the US or that partially exist through another country (like some of the small pacific island states) isn't an easy comparison.
The Windows phone website lists the Macau special administrative region of china specifically, but to me that's really just part of the Peoples Republic of China, so is that really
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180 marketplaces? (Score:3, Funny)
That's nice. I will not buy anything in any of them.
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That's nice. I will not buy anything in any of them.
I can see why you posted as AC on slashdot with a daring, controversial opinion like that. It makes a real change to see an anti-Microsoft comment here.
what about rules that may bar some apps in some Co (Score:2)
what about rules that may bar some apps in some Countries?
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Who's left out? (Score:3)
There are only 192-194 countries... Who's left out?
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\Google copies Bing because of fear.
It is the other way around buddy
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Nice try, dick cocker, but Google actually stole a shit ton of Bing features. Also: http://searchengineland.com/bing-why-googles-wrong-in-its-accusations-63279 [searchengineland.com]
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Apple is as much an imitator as Microsoft, they are just more successful at misleading people like you through marketing. Apple didn't invent the app store, or full screen apps, or touch screen apps.
As much as I dislike... (Score:3)
Someone, please make a Ubuntu for 2012!
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This is not about Windows 8, actually. TFA is about Windows Phone 8, and the submitter (or the editor?) was clueless enough to confuse the two.
Wrong title and summary (Score:2)
The article clearly states that it is not about Windows 8 but about Windows PHONE 8 which is quite different.
It shouldn't be in any countries and in all. (Score:2, Interesting)
Why would you localize an internet sales portal? You want it to work the whole world over.
Accept all payment systems that are in the 21st century from VISA to paypal to whatever. Translate the whole thing into as many languages as you can find.
It's unforgivable for a company to have a problem accepting a customer's money. This is a darwin award level error.
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You'd do it for two reasons.
First, different countries want to extract different amounts of taxes.
Second, developers love to extract the maximum amount of money from customers by charging more in "rich" countries and less in "poor" countries.
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Then we'll pirate.
This is the 21st century and the consumer has globalized. If they want to treat us like crap then we can return the favor.
As to taxes... do those apply to online purchases of software? Never paid sales tax in my life for that. And I've run sales through the US, europe, and Japan. I'm well traveled and have lived in different countries. Never paid a tax for a digital download.
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In a world where some professionals earn $5/day and some earn $500/day, it seems quite fair to price software accordingly.
Do you also get upset at child and senior discounts?
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Put paper chains around my wrists and watch how they hold me.
You can adapt to the 21st century or go the way of that which fails to adapt.
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Put paper chains around my wrists and watch how they hold me.
You can adapt to the 21st century or go the way of that which fails to adapt.
It's nice to know that, whatever century you're in, there are always smug, self-satisfied, over-entitled fucktards around to try to fuck things up for everyone else.
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I'm not a sniveling cringing peasant. If you want to kowtow before any fool in a big hat that's your own business.
I'll just remember that when you're getting oppressed it isn't my business to help you. After all, you apparently like getting mud kicked in your face. I'm not a peasant. I'm a coequal member of my society. Anyone that wants to treat me otherwise will find the result. I'm clever enough that I can walk through most rules without breaking a single law. There are loopholes bored through these syste
stupid notion of fairness (Score:2)
The lack of fairness there is that the same skills are rewarded with different salaries, and the cause of that is trade barriers and restrictions on mobility of workers; if products could be traded freely and workers could move freely, then those differences would go away.
If you want to allow price discrimination, you need strong trade barriers, because otherwise people would just buy in
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is it within the eu?...
See, the issue here is that you don't need to localize payments at all.
You put up a portal where people can pay. If the money clears the transaction goes forward. Why is it my responsibility to tell the host nation what people bought and sold on my site?
No doubt countries pass laws to this effect all the time. But then they've past laws to declare pi equal to 3.
Laws that are inherently unenforceable are stupid. If physical goods are coming into the country maybe you can track that. Bu
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But they are not "unenforceable". Microsoft has plenty of seizable assets, and they are being held responsible for their business practices.
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yes, against large companies that centralize their payment system... you are right. But against any entity that isn't of their profile it isn't. And by punishing people for using centralized systems you create a powerful incentive for people to do things in other ways.
Increase the tax and see what happens. You'll just be increasing the incentive to do things in other ways.
If you make it clear that you'll punish people for doing things in a traceable and comprehensible manner then people will just do things
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I don't know what you're trying to argue. The discussion is about why Microsoft is restricting this by country, and I told you why: both because they can maximize their profit and because they want to comply with local tax laws. What's so difficult about that?
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Nothing as far as it goes. it's one way of dealing with a problem based on a taxation and legal frame work that is extremely antiquated at this point.
I frankly find the whole thing to be due a savage update.
I also question whether MS or the buyer should be liable for the taxes at all. The whole code needs a reboot.
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Except in the minds of whacked out libertarians, I suppose.
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Strawman much?
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It's an international transaction. In what way does it have anything do with their country? If I go to a foreign country and buy a sandwich do I owe taxes in that country or my country of origin? You would say in that country because I'm there. But on line I'm not in my country either am I? No. I'm in their country. So if you should be paying sales taxes to any country it should be to the country that hosts that servers. That is after all where it is being bought.
And guess where all the servers will move th
Keeping super busy (Score:1)
Nice to see those hard core folks up in Redmond doubing down and keeping themselves super busy. I guess it's good for some comic relief.
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Nice to see those hard core folks up in Redmond doubing down and keeping themselves super busy. I guess it's good for some comic relief.
Seems there are microsofties with too much time on their hands keeping super busy spinmodding Slashdot.
Bank of Microsoft. (Score:1)
Coordinating payment from different institutons in different currencies is a profit opportunitty.