要查找，购买和下载Windows Phone 7移动应用程序，您必须通过Windows Phone Marketplace，这是微软Zune媒体下载服务的一部分。到目前为止，只有几天的尝试和探索市场使用Zune PC软件，我留下了深刻的印象。
Microsoft提供了必要的基础知识，但是市场前端似乎似乎从用户的角度来看似乎不缩放 - 如果您只处理一些应用程序，搜索和发现是可管理的。但微软的整个应用战略是竞争来自Apple和Google在线目录的数十万个应用程序。
我们有一个幻灯片显示为16大多数免费窗口电话7应用程序可以让你全新的Windows Phone立即可用。进入评论，添加你自己的应用选择和评估。
你可以从手机集成的Marketplace Hub或下载Zune应用到你的电脑上并启动它。我没有Windows Phone 7手机，这款手机今天才在美国上市，所以上周我在个人电脑上安装了Zune。作为一个新手，我对Zune的Windows Phone Marketplace的个人电脑体验感到非常沮丧。(再说一次，我不知道这与手机在机上的体验是否不同，所以如果你使用的是Windows phone，请立即评论并告诉我。)主要问题是，它感觉像是一维的Web浏览器界面。我的意思是，没有书签，没有复制/粘贴，没有保存应用程序描述或图像的功能。而且，令人惊讶的是，没有到开发者网站或其他任何地方的热链接。没有办法组织你感兴趣的应用程序的集合。它也不是为发现应用而设计的。在Zune主页上，你点击很难看到的“市场”，在“页面”出现后，你点击“应用程序”。左边是一个“类型”列表，也就是所谓的类别，出于某些原因，它似乎是完全随机的:开始是游戏，娱乐，音乐和视频，结束是工具，业务，书籍和参考资料。中间是一个可滚动窗口，右边是滑动条。在排行榜顶端，有4个“推荐”应用或游戏，它们的图标代表了这些应用或游戏。向下滚动，你会看到“我们推荐”部分。 This shows two rows of four app icons, with an arrow to move you rightwards, to see more -- 15 or 16 altogether. To the right of this active window are two sorted lists of ten apps each:"top paid apps" and "top free apps."Scroll down further, and you come to the "New apps" section: a four-icon block that scrolls to the right, in increments of four, showing a total of 16 new apps.The icons introduce an immediate level of frustration. They show only the name, and whatever icon image that the developer has chosen. In some cases, for example, the official Twitter app, you know what you're getting -- "this is the app for Twitter."But otherwise, the only indication you have of what the app is about, is the broadest of hints in whichever "genre" it's been placed. Microsoft has made much of the fact that you can 'glance and go' at Windows Phone, because the OS gives you so much live, uptodate information. Not so when it comes to the Marketplace: there's no 'mouse-over' popup what would give, for example, a quick summary of the app, information you could use to decide whether you wanted more details, or you didn't want to spend anymore time with it since it was not what you were looking for.If you click on the "Business" category, a tiny black flag appears next to this label, a useful reminder of where you are. The vertical scrolling windows fills with what seems to be a maximum of 28 app icons. You click on an arrow to move right, if there are more than 28 in the category.But you have no idea how many apps are in a given category. So you never know how many you have to sort through. In addition, the apps are, again, arranged apparently randomly: an alphabetical listing would give you a rough idea of where a known app would be in the grouping -- an app starting with "W" would be near the end, for example. Under each icon is the app name, five stars for the user rating (black stars show the rating), and either "FREE" or the price of the app. That's all: to find out any more information you have to click the app. When you do, you see the app icon at left; just to the right of it, is the name, it's genre or category, the version number, the release date; and a clickable bar, with "Free" or the price. Clicking here brings up a "confirmation" window to confirm your free download or complete the purchase of the app.To the right is a brief description of the app, and what general information the apps makes use: for example, "data connection", "media library", "owner identity."At left, the customer "star" rating is repeated, with a link "view reviews," which shifts you to the list of reviews. Each shows the number of stars awarded by the reviewer, the reviewer's username, and the date and time of the post.Clicking on "view description" shifts you back to the app's main page.Along the bottom of the page, is a series of screenshots, sometimes only one, sometimes half a dozen or more. Clicking on one, will bring it up in a pop-up, which appears to be the size of an actual Windows Phone screen (but I'm not sure of that). In my flat panel resolution, the popup is not very clear, especially the text (I don't know what this feature will look or behave as on a real Windows Phone.) The relative small size, on a full-size desktop display, is frustrating: I couldn't see clearly the screenshot's details.
因此，我的初始考虑，从用户的角度来看，基于PC的Zune软件是市场提供最小可用性。也许它的下载视频和音乐的要求也很小，在那里，短剪辑可能需要知道购买/下载决定。但应用程序提供功能。微软可以做更多的是让市场成为更好的恩德士体验。