...For developing Windows Phone apps that is.
They currently have only 70,000+ apps and want to compete more effectively with Android and iPhone apps that number in the 400,000+ and 700,000+ ranges respectively.
How do you get your hands on all that money?
Just develop a competing app to one of the well-known ones on the Android and iPhone platform and you'll be in for a treat!
Oh and you don't have to do all the development work yourself, Microsoft will fund 3d-party developers to help offset your development costs...
Yep...that money that they'll give you..is really to offset development costs which can range between $60,000 (for simple apps) - $600,000 (for more complex apps).
Now, ain't that grand! :)
...and you get free Windows Phones to boot!
..Simply delicious!
So what are you waiting for?
Go get your 600K!
(I'd like to thank clintonjeff for the use of his Flickr inset photo entitled,"Windows Phone 7 Review").
Gillian
Sources Include
1) Article, "Microsoft Is Writing Checks to Fill Out Its App Store", by Jenna Wortham and Nick Wingfield, New York Times:Business Day|Technology, April 5,2012
2) Article,"Microsoft subsidizes developers up to $600,000 per Windows Phone app", by Preston Gralla, ComputerWorld, April 6, 2012
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