Microsoft appears to be building a business app marketplace

From InfoWorld: Microsoft appears to be building a business app store. The company put online a test version of a service called AppSource that's designed to help businesses find software that augments the Microsoft products they already use, such as Power BI and Dynamics AX.

The AppSource site was available Tuesday night at appsource.microsoft.com), but is down now. A description on its homepage said that users would be able to use the site to find software-as-a-service offerings from Microsoft and selected partners that they could try for free before purchasing them.

All of this appears to have come to light after someone developing the site at Microsoft accidentally made a test version of it available on the public Internet, where it was discovered by a prolific Microsoft leaker who goes by Walking Cat on Twitter.

The service stayed up for about an hour after Walking Cat first posted about it on Twitter, which was enough time to find out the basics of what it means.

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