Now Marketplace disappears from Switzerland, Belgium and Luxemburg also

April 11, 2011 | By Surur

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No apps available in the Belgian Marketplace.

Marketplace made a brief appearance in India last week, but it appears when it exited stage left it also took a few other markets with it.

Monsmartphone complains that Marketplace in the Zune desktop client has stopped being available, at least for apps, but oddly still works for movies.

Fortunately however the client will still show applications when linked from a website, like Monsmartphone’s own Marketplace directory, so all is not lost yet.

Hopefully all these shenanigans are a precursor to a wider roll out to be announced soon, rather than Microsoft tightening the screws on users in markets outside the approved areas.

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Tagged belguim, europe, luxemburg, marketplace, switzerland, windows phone 7

http://www.facebook.com/raj.somarouthu Raj Somarouthu

Hmmm … what is going on … Tomorrow is the big day … let us wait and see …

http://fxfp.com/ Alex F.

I think WP7 news will come from the Wednesday keynote. Tomorrow's one will be about IE.

jabtano

As shareholder in MS this is frustrating. I don't understand why MS is having so many issue's whit this. Frustration when one searches for stuff in the MP find something look at it and go back only to be brought back to the top of the search rather than getting you back to where you left off, instead of having to troll throe the whole section one was looking in.It's all the simple stuff that are starting to add up.
oslik

My NoDo update dissapeared from my Zune last Saturday:
http://stubborndev.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/nodo-…

I have an unlocked phone and haven't installed NoDo yet, because I needed ChevronWP7 unlocker. Which, by the way, doesn't work anymore too.

MS has offered me NoDo for several weeks, but discountinued it now. I hope this means something more than just a strange update bug (or even a weird policy) – perhaps a new in-between WP update to be launched during MIX. (Sure, we can dream.)

rsg

Very strange.

oslik

Otherwise I will try a reset to the factory settings.
https://www.facebook.com/philippe.wechsler Philippe Wechsler

I'm from switzerland and the marketplace works like a charm?!?
MarcXW

I'm swiss – no Problem here.
http://www.andre-meyer.ch casaout

thats not true for Switzerland. In my marketplace and the one of my friends the app-part is still shown.