Windows 8 app contest: details, eligibility criteria and last date to apply

Posted Date: 12-Dec-2011	Category: Windows 8 News	Rating:
Author: chirag sachdeva	Member Level: Diamond	Points: 30

Complete details of first Windows 8 app contest are given below. You can also know participation rules and how to submit apps for this contest. Windows 8 app contest is taking place all round the world, where every person can participate in Windows 8 app contest. Read this article to know more about Windows 8 app contest details, eligibility criteria, benefits and last date to apply.

Windows 8 first app contest complete details, eligibility criteria, benefits and last date to apply

Microsoft is always trying something new and exciting for its customers. This time Microsoft openly inviting world developers to show their coding skills on Windows 8 app store. Here you will get a chance to develop one of the first apps in Windows store. All you have to do is to create your own Metro style app for Windows 8 store. Very less time is left to submit your first app in Windows 8 contest. So, be fast because last to submit the Windows 8 app is by 8 January 2012. It requires valid Windows Live ID login for account validation before trying to submit first entry for the Windows 8 contest.

Windows 8 app contest details, benefits, eligibility criteria and last date to apply

We know that Microsoft is focusing on its upcoming operating system .i.e. Windows 8 and trying to migrate it to tablets PC soon. So, it requires Windows 8 app store which should be enriched with high quality apps. Thus, Microsoft is hoping that Windows 8 will get new excited apps from developers.

The first Windows 8 App contest will going to select 8 winning apps and these selected apps will get first position in Windows 8 store when it opens. This is great opportunity for coding gurus to prove their worth and show off your great apps in front of world. If you want to be a part of exclusive group of developers then do not go anywhere just focus on Windows 8 app contest and try to make your first shot ready. It will be good for those new developers as they are provided with some goodies to help them build even better apps. It is Samsung Windows 8 developer preview PC on which app will be tested in future. It will be good to know that apps build by you should work on touch and sensor screen because later it will be shifted to the Samsung Windows 8 tablets.

It provides many benefits to developers such that they can get one year of Windows Azure subscription. You can even build apps that feel connected and alive with online data storage cloud. It offers easier approach to manipulate online storage of data on server. Moreover, two year subscription is provided to the store through which you can continue to update and improve your app interface. It is 20 more days left to design and develop your first app and finalist winner will be notified on 15 January 2012 and it will be given few days to make Windows 8 apps available before 3 February 2012 so as to run it on Windows 8 tablet.

You also need to logon on Windows live ID to submit their first Windows app and need to make Windows 8 developer preview available to customers. It is Microsoft judicial panel which will going to review innovative apps after evaluating metro style principles which is outlined on Windows 8 app store. It must be compatible with thin form factors and screen resolutions so to evaluate it on PC, laptops and tablets.

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