Micosoft had a busy week with all the launch of Windows 8 about Friday as well as the severe overhaul of its Windows Phone 8 Mobile platform about he Monday. Early figures indicate it may be paying off, with 4 million updates available over the initially weekend.

CEO Steve Ballmer confirmed the stats inside his keynote speech to the Microsofot Develpers Conference, going about to promise more Windows 8 apps, including PayPal, plus Dropbox.

Actually the 4 million headline figure doesn’t count the business beast, believed to have snapped up, inside Monsieur Ballmer’s words, ‘tens of millions’ of duplicates of the modern touch-centered OS.

The PayPal’s Windows 8 API, makes it potential for apps (or devs, should you prefer) to accept monies through PayPal from in apps available by the Windows Store; in-game micro-transactions must aid receive more devs concerned with Windows 8 because a mobile gaming platform. Talking of that there are stil acouple of days left inside that budding devs will register with Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 Developer System.

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