Microsoft Readying Its Standardized Platform: Welcome SkyMarket

SkyMarket is Microsoft’s mobile marketplace that will compete head on with the new Blackberry Storefront, Android Marketplace and Apple App Store (Palm’s soon to come). Did you think Apple had a lot of applications in their store? Think again. Microsoft has 18,000 applications for Windows Mobile spread across the web today. The SkyMarket will be their first attempt at bringing these apps together in one place where third party developers can promote and sell their applications in once place. The above is a screenshot from a smartphone blog in France. Microsoft will be debuting the app store for their latest version of Windows Mobile in Barcelona next month. Exciting stuff from the old software giant.