If you’ve been jonesing to get your app into the Windows Store and don’t want to compete for attention with the developing masses when Windows 8 ships, Microsoft might just have your ticket to the front of the line. Developer Evangelist Matt Harrington is offering a fast track for developers that write a “great” app, contact him through his blog and meet all the app submission conditions needed to get Microsoft’s rubber stamp. Along with receiving a token to enter the store well ahead of most others, those privileged few who clear the hurdles can get help from a Microsoft engineer to give their Windows 8 apps that extra polish
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Microsoft gives Windows 8 developers a head start on Windows Store app submissions
We’re not sure what anniversary the 17th is but, if we had to guess, we’d say its the x86 anniversary. Google has just released Revision 17 of the Android SDK and ADT and its packing an array of improvements, most notably to the Lint build system and the emulator
Get out the salt shaker, because there’s a new Windows Phone rumor making its way across the web today. Citing sources “familiar with Sprint’s LTE game plan,” SprintFeed is reporting that the carrier is looking to launch a new LTE-enabled handset later this year — one that’ll allegedly run Windows Phone 8 , commonly known as Apollo . 
Replication is a necessary survival technique in nature, and now Android apps have joined the self-preservation fray with a new piece of software known as the Android Java IDE (AIDE). An integrated development environment for — don’t you know it — Android, the package provides would-be coders with a complete set of development tools that include code completion, formatting, refactoring, real-time error checking and more
A small but fundamental shift happened this evening in the Android Market , as Google has raised its rather arbitrary maximum application size from 50MB to a hefty 4GB. While APK files retain the traditional 50MB restriction, developers will be able to bundle two additional 2GB expansion files with their apps, which (in most cases) will be downloaded automatically. The move is fundamentally a goodwill gesture toward game developers — who were previously forced to host any content in excess of 50MB themselves — but it also bodes well for consumers, who can now view an application’s actual file size. 
Microsoft spent a big chunk of MWC today telling everyone about Windows 8 and if you’re the coding type, the news gets even better. If invited, you’ll be expecting something nice in the mail to arrive from Redmond very shortly. It’s sending out test PCs powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4 MSM8960 that includes the beefy LTE, camera and sensor gear we played with in our hands-on. 
