Microsoft to demo apps store marketplace for mobile at CTIA

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Apple with its iPhone apps store may have created the blueprint for opening up your software platform to mobile software developers and then reaping the rewards in more iPhone sales.

So its hardly surprising that Microsoft has started to develop its own apps store for its version 6.5 mobile operating system to be released later this year. Microsoft's mobile apps marketplace will demo'd at the up-and-coming CTIA Wireless 2009 show that opens in Las Vegas tomorrow (1 April) and they have already signed up multiple software partners, including Facebook, music servioce Pandora and games publisher EA.

Others are said to be following suit with Research In Motions's Blackberry also expected to launch its mobile apps store at CTIA.


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