There are already 125 thousand applications in the Windows Store

The application store for Windows 8, Windows Store, has just surpassed 125 thousand applications That's at least if we pay attention to the numbers of MetroStore Scanner, the independent directory of applications of the store, which right now claims to find 125,981 applications in it, to which around 200 new ones are added daily.

The numbers follow those collected yesterday by the North American website TechCrunch from information provided by Microsoft to developers. According to them, during the month of October more than 51 million applications were downloaded from the Windows Store, which would give an average of 1.7 million downloads per day The figures represent an increase of more than 38% compared to the month of June, after a spring period of slight stagnation.

To also highlight the fact that the vast majority of downloaded applications are free: 49.8 million, or 97.3%. Barely 1.4 million downloads, 2.7% of the total, correspond to paid applications Even so, it would be necessary to see what the percentage of applications of one type and another existing in the store to clarify these numbers.

By categories, the most downloaded applications are Games. And it is that by themselves they are responsible for 14.7 million free downloads and almost 1 million of the paid ones In second place are the applications of Entertainment and those of Tools, with more than 5 million downloads, closely followed by the applications of the Social category and those of Music and video.

According to MetroStore Scanner, the Games category is one of the most populated in the Windows Store. With its 19,729 applications, it is only surpassed by Books and Reference. The Entertainment and Music and Video categories are also highly populated, with more than 10,000 listed apps each, a figure that is still far behind Tools. More significant is the success of the Social category, which has accumulated more than 4.3 million downloads with less than 2,000 applications in the store.

Interesting to see how the numbers point to greater success of entertainment-related apps Users seem to turn to Modern UI apps primarily to play games, listen to music and watch videos or to contact your friends. Only the category of tools slips between them, but given the generic nature of its name it is difficult to measure its impact in our observation.

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