Windows Phone users, happily getting their Mango update, can now buy apps using a website as well as the Windows-only Zune client. The web-based version offers access to the same range of applications, and pushes them directly out to a registered handset, or sends an email with a suitable link if push isn't operable for some …

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Wednesday 28th September 2011 15:27 GMT Richard 31

Also useful..

... if like me you find the Zune software a painful experience.

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Wednesday 28th September 2011 15:58 GMT Anonymous Coward

Hurrah

Now MS users can buy software for their crappy OS from anywhere!

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1. Wednesday 28th September 2011 17:21 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Troll Alert!
  
  Didn't take long to come out from under the bridge.
  
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  1. Wednesday 28th September 2011 19:30 GMT Anonymous Coward
    
    Their like bugs to a light bulb, put one out there an they come from miles away.
    
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Wednesday 28th September 2011 19:29 GMT Darryl

"that Mac-using-WP7-owning demographic" - I'm sure both of them will be thrilled.

Seriously though, I'm happy to see that MS is giving people a choice instead of forcing them to use proprietary software.

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1. Wednesday 28th September 2011 21:28 GMT Al Jones
  
  Do they still need the Zune s/w to download the mango update?
  
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Thursday 29th September 2011 06:45 GMT Jolyon Smith

Because without a web store...

... nobody takes those two-bit wannabee platform players over at Apple seriously at all.

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Thursday 29th September 2011 09:12 GMT mark l 2

lets call it the Windows app store, the more the term 'app store' becomes generic for a place to buy your applications the less chance Apple will have to trademark it.

But then again i don't like the Windows trade mark as that is also generic and a Window in an OS were refered to as such before MS Windows came along.

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