Microsoft reveals new Windows 8 app developer contest

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Earlier this week, Microsoft announced the Next App Star competition, which will give the winning Windows Phone 8 app a way to be featured in a national Windows Phone TV commercial. Now there's word that the company has launched a new developer contest for Windows 8 apps as well.

The Windows Store developer blog has posted up word on the Windows Startup Challenge, which is designed for creators who are just starting to make Windows 8 apps. Indeed, developers don't actually submit apps themselves to be considered for the project.

Instead, app teams will submit a two minute video that shows a prototype of the app they want to make. The deadline for submitting the video is January 29th. If their project is picked, the app team will be assigned a mentor who will help guide their Windows 8 app to completion with the deadline of March 1st.

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[McLovin]

You have to be a great coder to do this.

 

[SpongeGuard]

This can only be good news. Windows 8 has a serious lack of useful apps in the metro store. As it stands, it has the useless 80% of the android and ios market place with none of the good stuff, lol.

 

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This can only be good news. Windows 8 has a serious lack of useful apps in the metro store. As it stands, it has the useless 80% of the android and ios market place with none of the good stuff, lol.

Kinda,think so. That is why I use Windows 8 yet..well I remember not installing Win 7 untill it was 7-8 months old,I still used Windows vista till . Don't use new OS till it have patches,bug-fixes,and apps