Global Windows Store app totals rise but still lacks quality
Microsoft's Windows Store for Windows 8 has hit the 20,000 app mark.
Although Microsoft hasn't published the numbers itself, Win App Update on Twitter said the total had been reached last week. The global Windows Store now has over 20,000 apps available.
According to The Next Web, the landmark was achieved by added nearly 8,000 apps to the Windows Store over the course of two weeks. Win App Update says that around 87 percent of the apps available are free, accounting for around 18,000 apps.
Not all apps in the Windows Store are available in every region and language. In the UK, at the time of writing, the Windows Store on our Windows 8 desktop has just over 10,500 apps.
Microsoft may be increasing the amount of apps in the Windows Store at a good rate. However, the problem we've found, as discussed in our Surface RT review, is a lack of quality big name apps which you would expect to find.
Key missing apps include Spotify, Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox, BBC iPlayer, IMDb and more.
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Tanja Gersten said: they might want to change things which is not bad but thats not how you should do it having FB and Twitter is a must
The Funky Monkey said: Ahhh good the author has now corrected the mistake Youre welcome
The Funky Monkey said: Between MetroTwit and Rowi Windows 8 users have Twitter covered already Facebook can be done through the native apps anyway with messanger being built into the OS rather than being reliant on a seperate appYes Spotify is missing Im sure it will come soon as its been out on WP7 for a while iPlayer may take some time which is disappointing - conflict with BBC and Microsoft some months ago pointed to thisIDMB - The Internet Doobie Metabase Can only assume the author of the article means the IMDB - and yes this Flixster and a good spell checker would all be very welcome some time soon
Alex said: You would have thought that the likes of Facebook Twitter and the BBC would have had these apps ready for the launch last month