Windows Marketplace has officially stepped into its next stage of development. There's a new desktop client now and you can buy apps directly from your PC and later install them on your Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphone.
Marketplace support for devices based on WinMo 6.1 and 6.0 is expected later this month.
Starting today you can buy application from the Windows Mobile Marketplace through your desktop computer. When you buy yourself some apps on the desktop computer, they will be downloaded automatically to your smartphone as soon as you open the mobile Marketplace client.
The second Marketplace that has been updated is the anti-piracy measures and while the average users won't feel any changes, the developers will surely be happy there's more protection for their paid apps. If you are a developer you may need to read the anti-piracy whitepaper to understand the new security system.
Microsoft also announced that they will launch the Windows Marketplace for WinMo 6.0 and 6.1 later this month, so those of you with older OS versions won't have to wait long.