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What’s your monetization strategy? Selecting how to monetize your app is a big part of any development process. Different kinds of apps can have very different opportunities and needs—so your monetization strategy can inform not just your business model, but your app’s final design, content, and code. Microsoft Store offers a variety of different ways to add monetization to your app. Here’s a quick breakdown of our 4 biggest earners and how they can work for you. Base price Charging an up-front base price is a one-time transaction: you offer a product and the user pays for it. Microsoft Store allows you to change your base price at any time, in any market, so you can always experiment with your numbers and see how your target audience responds. A general rule of thumb for setting a base price is to scope out [ more… ]

Bring your film libraries together through Movies Anywhere, now available on Xbox and Windows 10 When you connect your Microsoft account with your Movies Anywhere account, you can enjoy all of your eligible movies from Microsoft across your favorite screens at no extra cost. This includes Xbox and Windows, iOS and Android, smart TVs and streaming devices. You’ll also be able to watch eligible movies you previously bought from other participating digital retailers through the Movies & TV app on Xbox and Windows 10. As part of this launch, you can add “X-Men: Days of Future Past” for free to your digital collection, for a limited time, if you connect your Microsoft account to Movies Anywhere for the first time. Head over to Xbox Wire to find out more. Source: Bring your film libraries together through Movies Anywhere, now available [ more… ]

Save your files to OneDrive for expanded ransomware protection If you want an additional layer of protection from ransomware, try saving your files in OneDrive. It’s part of the new experiences that arrived with the Windows 10 April 2018 Update. Here’s how it works: If a ransomware threat is found on a device, Windows Defender will notify you of the threat, help you remove the ransomware from your device, and give you options to recover your OneDrive files to the state they were in before the attack occurred. Save your files to OneDrive   For Office 365 Home subscribers, Office 365 Personal subscribers, and OneDrive for Business users, that includes OneDrive Files Restore, which can be used to restore your OneDrive to a previous point in time within the last 30 days. The date and time that Windows Defender detected [ more… ]

Microsoft Pay is now available with Masterpass “We are deeply committed to powering a secure and optimized shopping experience that consumers and merchants deserve. Integrating technologies like Microsoft Pay with Masterpass will help the industry move to standards-based payments. Microsoft is a great partner and we will continue to collaborate with Microsoft to make shopping a better experience on all devices,” says Raj Dhamodharan, senior vice president of Digital Solutions at Mastercard. Now U.S.-based consumers using the latest Microsoft Edge browser on Windows 10 devices can sign in to their Microsoft account and use Microsoft Pay to make secure purchases wherever Masterpass is accepted online. More broadly, Microsoft Pay allows for a seamless and convenient consumer experience within the Microsoft ecosystem, including paying bills in Outlook, and buying goods or services in apps or bots. “We are always seeking to [ more… ]