So Microsoft saw Apple and the iPhone 3G and adjoining App Store pass its stoop slapping fives with its oh-so-cool friends, and executives in the Windows Mobile division perhaps thought it best to come up something with their own. Then, just last week, Google unveiled plans to introduce something called Android Market to complement its mobile software platform when it arrives sometime in the next few months. Now Microsoft is letting slip its own message about third-party unity. The company's buzzword: Skymarket.
There isn’t much detail as to what Skymarket will be. One can venture a guess, though. Something in the vein of those other two labels up in that first paragraph there. What we can confirm is that, according to job listings discovered by istartedsomething, Microsoft is seeking both a “senior product manager” and “product manager - commercial integration.” Both would be tasked with pushing “the launch of a v1 marketplace service for Windows Mobile.”