Microsoft Windows 8 Appfest, held at Karnataka Trade Promotion
Organization (KTPO) in the outskirts of Bangalore, set a new Guinness
world record as 2567 app developers coded for 18 hours straight.
However, Microsoft had expected at least 3500 developers to last through
the attempt.
An added advantage for Microsoft is that this also helps generate some
hype around its next big release, Windows 8, slated to release on
October 26. The 18-hour event is a non-stop marathon commenced at 2 p.m.
on Friday and continued till 8 a.m. on Saturday.
The event of this scale was supported by two Gigabits of bandwidth coming into the venue and six power generating stations ensured that power failure was not a problem.
Although growth rates were slowing down, the sector was stable, which was perhaps why India was the only country where Microsoft was doing an event of this scale, he emphasised.
Microsoft is busy with an endeavor to make it to the Guinness World Records for the most number of apps programmed for a single platform in 18 hours.
Speaking from the Windows Appfest, Jon DeVaan, Corporate Vice President,
Windows Development, Microsoft said, "Developers are at the center of
Microsoft's success. And India is home to some of the world's most
talented developers. We are focused on enabling developers to succeed as
they build the next generation of apps. I can't wait to see some of
these apps being built at the Windows Appfest."
The event of this scale was supported by two Gigabits of bandwidth coming into the venue and six power generating stations ensured that power failure was not a problem.
MASSIVE RESOURCES
Bhaskar Pramanik, Chairman, Microsoft India, noted that IT in India was a $ 100-billion industry, contributing to 7.5 per cent of the GDP.Although growth rates were slowing down, the sector was stable, which was perhaps why India was the only country where Microsoft was doing an event of this scale, he emphasised.
He said 2 Gigabits of bandwidth was coming into the venue, and six power
generating stations were deployed to support an event of this scale.
ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY
Introducing the Windows 8 AppFest, Jon DeVaan, Corporate Vice-President,
Windows Development, Microsoft, said this event provided an
“unparalleled economic opportunity” to Indian developers.
This, he says, owes to the fact that Windows8 is the only platform where
developers will be given full control over in-app purchases (not having
to share revenue with the company), while the others developers will
have to give 30 per cent of the first $ 25,000 the app generates, and 20
per cent thereafter.
In case, the app owner uses Microsoft’s payment gateway, they will have to share profits, Mr. DeVaan explained.
Raising the pitch for the release of Windows 8, Mr. DeVaan compared this
to the launch of Windows 95, which represented a “generational shift”
by introducing 32-bit computing. “This is going to make a similar
impact.”
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