The head of Keen flare calls the success of the release of the game Royal Revolt! for devices on the Windows 8 platform, phenomenal: in just 2 months, the game was downloaded 750 thousand times on Windows Phone alone.

Arkadium, using the example of its games, notes a 35% increase in the number of active users among owners of Windows 8 devices. In this scenario, the iOS application market seems less stable to them.

At the Build 2013 conference, Microsoft representative Rosa Thomas said that since the launch of the Xbox SmartGlass client application in October 2012, it has been downloaded 17 million times.

According to the results of the first quarter of 2013, 3 million Windows-based tablets were shipped. This is 7.5% of the global market of “tablets”. 

App Annie company announced that it has started indexing applications for Windows 8 devices. So far, however, the functionality is in beta stage. 

There are only 1,421 gaming apps available for Windows 8 right now. This figure was announced at the London Games Conference 2012 by Andrew Webber, head of Microsoft’s marketing department.

Now Microsoft Studios is competing with Google and Apple, said Phil Harrison, vice president of the interactive entertainment division at Microsoft.

Yesterday, the app store for Windows 8-based devices reached the mark of 20 thousand applications. 

Today, October 26 – with a difference of one day with the worldwide release of Windows 8 – Microsoft has released the Surface tablet to the American market. 

Vladimir Kolesnikov, an expert on strategic technologies at Microsoft, gave an exclusive interview to the App2Top portal. As part of a rather lengthy conversation, we discussed the reason for creating separate operating systems for smartphones and tablets, the issue of porting applications to them, as well as the features of monetization of games on Windows 8 and WP8.

According to sources close to Microsoft, the company has built its own factory in China for the production of Surface tablets.

Keith Lorizio, vice president of Microsoft Corporation, last week in an interview with Beet TV said about the expected prospects of Windows 8.

Paul Otellini, CEO of Intel, said at an internal corporate meeting in Taiwan that Windows 8 will be released raw.

By the official release of Windows 8, which will be available on both PCs and tablets, there will be about 3,000 programs in its app store. 

Startup Agawi announced the conclusion of an agreement with Microsoft Corporation. According to it, the game streaming service from Agawi will be available on all Windows 8 devices (including tablets). 

Microsoft has announced the Xbox Live service in the Windows 8 version, as well as the launch line of games for it. Each of these games can be played on any device with the new Microsoft platform on board – be it a PC, laptop or, what is relevant in our case, a tablet. 

The first information about the potentially main competitor of the yet–to-be-released Microsoft Surface tablet, the “tablet” from the Korean giant Samsung, has appeared on the web. 

This became known at the Unity 2012 conference currently taking place in Amsterdam.

Engadget reported that a Microsoft tablet in a minimal configuration will cost no more than a Kindle Fire.