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Windows Marketplace to include kill switch for rogue applications

Microsoft able to remotely remove applications from your device

Windows Marketplace to include kill switch for rogue applications
Software approval on the world's many app stores is becoming a significant issue for developers, but Microsoft's new Windows Marketplace could involve the user in the issues before long.

Apparently, the new digital download platform for WinMo devices will include a kill switch within the applications, which will allow the Big M to remotely remove software from a user's device that it has a problem with.

Speaking at the Microsoft Tech.Ed New Zealand 2009 event, Windows Mobile group senior technical product manager Loke Uei Tan confirmed that should a previously approved application or game be removed from the Windows Marketplace, it'll automatically be deleted from user's devices.

What he didn't discuss is the matter of a refund for any premium software that vanishes from a Marketplace shopper's library.

Yes. Spanner's his real name. And, yes, he's heard that joke before.