Windows Phone Store now available in 191 Markets

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The Windows Phone Store team have announced a further expansion of their service.

The online webstore has added another 37 markets, taking the web store up to 112 markets, and the store on the phone itself to 191.

The new markets are:

Angola, Armenia, Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Congo (DRC), Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guinea, Haiti, Honduras, Kenya, Liechtenstein, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Niger, Pakistan, Paraguay, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Microsoft also announced some new features.  The first is the ability to downloads XAPs and install them from SD card.  The next is “universal search”, which will surface apps and “How-to” articles from the same search.

The last as an improved re-install feature, which should make it easier to restore your phone apps after a hard reset.

Read more at the Windows blog here.

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