![]() I don't have a Windows Phone 7 handset, which go on sale today in the U.S., so last week I installed Zune on my PC.The PC experience of Zune's Windows Phone Marketplace for me, as a newbie, is extremely frustrating. You access the Zune-based apps either from the phone's integrated Marketplace Hub or by downloading the Zune application to your PC and firing it up. Jump into comments to add your own app choices and evaluations. We have a slide-show of 16 mostly free Windows Phone 7 apps that will make your brand new Windows Phone instantly usable. But Microsoft's whole apps strategy is to compete with the hundreds of thousands of apps available from the Apple and Google online catalogs. Microsoft provides the basics that are necessary, but the Marketplace front-end doesn't seem to scale, from a user viewpoint - if you're only dealing with a few apps, searching and discovery is manageable. So far, with just a few days of experimenting and exploring Marketplace using the Zune PC software, I'm not impressed. ![]() ![]() ![]() To find, buy and download Windows Phone 7 mobile apps, you have to go through the Windows Phone Marketplace, which is part of Microsoft's Zune media download service. ![]()
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