If you frequent Apple‘s iOS App Store or Google‘s Play Android marketplace, then you’re probably used to being able to pick up app for 99 cents, but this won’t be the case in Microsoft‘s Windows 8 App store. Microsoft has outlined how developers can make money from their apps using the Windows Store in a blog post over on MSDN. While prices can go as high as $999.99, the cheapest that a developer set the price of an app is $1.49. Developers will also have the option of making their app free though the Windows Store, as well as offering the app free as part of a 7-day trial. Read the full story at Forbes.
About Shelly Palmer
Shelly Palmer is the Professor of Advanced Media in Residence at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and CEO of The Palmer Group, a consulting practice that helps Fortune 500 companies with AI strategy, implementation and governance, as well as technology, media and marketing. Named one of LinkedIn’s Top Voices in Technology, he is a bestselling author, covers tech and business for Fox 5’s Good Day New York, is a regular commentator on CNN, and writes the popular daily business blog Think About This. Follow @shellypalmer or visit shellypalmer.com.