The Azure Marketplace can now vend commercial applications meaning that any software application built for Windows (using the VMrole) or through Visual Studio (using the worker role) theoretically can be offered through Windows Azure as well.

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Includes Wi-Fi Analytics Tool Apps: Advanced software application for Android and Windows devices that assists in analyzing and optimizing Wi-Fi networks for maximum speed and coverage.

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Outside software developers were also promised the coding or API's (application programming interfaces) that Windows developers have for programs like Microsoft Office.

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While Apple under Steve Jobs focused on its Macintosh closed system of hardware, software, and applications, Microsoft built an open market system on Windows: any hardware, any application, many ways to make money.

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