Windows Phone Store

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Windows Phone Store
Windows Phone Store shown on Windows Phone 8.1
Developer(s)	Microsoft Corporation
Initial release	October 21, 2010; 14 years ago (2010-10-21)
Operating system	Windows Phone 7 Windows Phone 8 Windows Phone 8.1 Windows 10 Mobile
Successor	Microsoft Store
Type	App store
License	Proprietary
Website	www.microsoft.com/store/apps/windows-phone

Windows Phone Store was a digital distribution platform developed by Microsoft for Windows Phone for publishers to release apps on and users to download apps to their smartphones.

The app store was initially launched as Windows Phone Marketplace with Windows Phone 7 in October 2010. With the rollout of Windows Phone 7.5, Microsoft unveiled the online Marketplace that offers over-the-air installation of apps. In August 2012, Microsoft renamed the Marketplace to Windows Phone Store. In July 2015, the Windows Phone Store was replaced by a single Windows Store, which would act as a unified store for all Windows-powered devices including the Windows 10 Mobile platform.^[1] This process was complemented by the Apps on Windows website, an interim solution before the unified Windows Store.^[2] The Windows Phone Store shut down for Windows Phone 8.1 systems on December 16, 2019.^[3]