[jeisner]

The problem with 6.5 to me is the marketplace

- Developers who have gotten on early are saying that MS don't give them the liveid of buyers so they can't send keys out themselves to buyers (if they used product key protection).
- MS preferred method to protect the software, deleting the CAB file of an app after install has already been cracked and is so easy to bypass it is silly.
- It is region based but worse than DVD or Blueray. You are automatically set to your own region as a buyer and as a seller you have to submit seperately to each region (each submission is charged seperate to the yearly fee).
- Seperate regions just for english so far include US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, Singapore and Ireland.
- Support for developers is so slow it is just sad.
- I have seen a number of reports of apps (including some well known software) being rejected with the reason response being left blank, each one comes off the 5 submissions allowed for the original US$99 fee (each submission after that is US$99).

Very little seems to be happening on the MSDN forum so maybe as this becomes more public someone at MS will wake up.. It just seems to me reading all the problems other people are having and the things I have experienced that they are charging us a 12 month subscription to sign up to a store that is well and truely still in a beta state even now..