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Microsoft sees great developer adoption rates after BUILD

posted on Nov 9th 2012 at 7:08pm by Ashley King

Microsoft had another successful BUILD conference last week, with developer uptake on the new Windows Phone 8 SDK doubling that of the first 8 days of the Windows Phone 7.1 SDK. Keep in mind this may be because Microsoft offered Windows Phone 8 developer accounts for only $8 during this promotional period. Still, an average of around 1,500 developers downloaded the SDK in the first eight days of availability. This makes the WP8 SDK the fastest downloading software development kit Microsoft has released this year.

Of course, whether or not this translates into more high profile developers for Windows Phone 8 remains to be seen, but shared code and an overall great enthusiasm about both Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 could spell success for Microsoft.

[via WPCentral]

  • http://www.2girls1game.com Ashley K.

    I’m hoping with so many dievelopers interested in the $8 accounts, we’ll see lots more high-profile apps. Just waiting on Facebook to do something with Instagram.

  • http://twitter.com/DHRYDER305 Josh

    I had hopes that there would be a big announcement of a WP8 instagram a with the release of WP8. Now that the time has come and gone the prospects don’t look good. Maybe theres a team working on it secretly, we’ll see.

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