Not Appearing In Microsoft’s MarketPlace

Microsoft has released a list of the kind of apps it won't be accepting in its version of the AppStore.

Microsoft is set to debut MarketPlace, its version of Apple’s hugely successful AppStore, this summer. And yesterday it released a list of the kind of apps that it won’t be accepting.

It includes apps over 10MB, anything connected with VoIP (and any apps that sell, link to, or promote voice plans), as well as those that change the default browser on the user’s computer, according to Vnunet.

Also banned are apps that let users use others app stores and those using location-based software to give the user’s position without his specific consent. All ads on apps have to be approved first by Microsoft.

The company has just opened up to outside developers, who must pay $99 to submit up to five apps a year. They’ll receive a 30% cut of the sale price of the app. That compares very unfavorably with the 70% developers get from Apple.