in-app purchases

This blog is the latest in a recurring series about recent Store trends across categories, markets, and more. Understanding these trends can help you determine what types of apps to build or where to focus your development efforts. With the launch of the unified Dev Center in April, we released...

The unified Dev Center introduced several new options to manage the visibility of apps and in-app purchase. We have seen developers start to use these new capabilities and have sent us questions on how these options work in different operating systems, and how to manage betas in the new Dev...

Next week we will begin the migration of accounts to the new Windows Dev Center dashboard. You can expect account migration to take place in waves – starting next week and extending into July. The migrations are scheduled based on account feature usage, for example starting with accounts that...

Continuing with the Dev Center unification, today I want to share with you payout reporting improvements rolling in the coming weeks that will unify the Windows and Windows Phone experience, provide added payout detail, and simplify the payment process. During May: Windows Dev Center Preview...

Hello from Build 2015 in San Francisco! Earlier today we revealed more details about Link Removed and shared the new ways for building more personal mobile experiences that you can monetize across one billion Windows 10 customers. During the remainder of the conference, we’ll go deep into each...

Today, I had the honor of speaking to thousands of our development partners at the Build conference about our plans to make Windows 10 the most attractive development platform ever. It is always thrilling to see so many developers excited about Microsoft – and this year, about Windows 10. If you...

This blog is the latest in a recurring series about recent Store trends across categories, markets, and more. Understanding these trends can help you determine what types of apps to build or where to focus your development efforts. Data from the Windows Store is presented alongside the Windows...

As you know by now one of the major benefits we’re working on for Windows 10 is a single Store and Dev Center experience across devices. Creating that single Store platform requires a wide range of updates and enhancements to our backend process and infrastructure in addition to the UI changes...

I have a few e-copies of Learning Windows 8 Game Development (http://www.packtpub.com/learning-windows-8-game-development/book) available for review. If interested, just do the following: 1. Drop an email to me with the subject line as "Learning Windows 8 Game Development - Review Request" on...

Hey guys, I am not sure if most of you are aware, but the policy for Windows 8 has been relaxed to now be more open for us developers. If you look at the Windows Store Application Developer Agreement clause 4e). You will find that for In-App Commerce. You may elect to support purchasing...

The principal engineer for Nokia's WP7 and WP8 devices has demonstrated, in rather frank detail, how to pirate Windows 8 Metro apps, how to bypass in-app purchases, and how to remove in-game ads. These hacks aren't exactly easy, but more worryingly they're not exactly hard either. Source...

I have no smart phone, so not familiar with how the Apps you can download for free work. In my case, the app was on a Kindle Fire. But after a couple of weeks, I started seeing advertising on the screen. Is this fairly normal for the free apps? Do paid apps not behave this way?

Article here: Link Removed - Invalid URL We have just gotten to the stage (or more Link Removed uses have) where if we purchased all map packs for Black Ops, we would have spent more money on the map packs than the game itself. Have a read, what do you think?

1. Amazon has just pulled the veil from its music locker-in-the-cloud system only to run into organizational and potential legal trouble. It's Sony Music this time , angry that Amazon's use of cloud streaming to clients is denying it potential royalty income. Amazon says "meh!" and alleges all...