As Promised at Build conference Windows Azure Marketplace is now live in 26 countries with support for 17 currencies. With this release we have delivered on a promise to our ISVs to have a global marketplace for cloud applications and data with secure commerce platform.

Benefits to ISVS:

• ISVs in 26 countries will be able to sell their applications & data through Windows Azure Marketplace.
• ISVs have an option to select the specific countries they would like to sell their apps in or just pick worldwide audiences.
• ISVs do not have to worry about taxes or any other local issues while transacting and selling their apps in all the countries
• ISVs get a benefit of demand they will get through a single online marketplace for cloud apps and data

Countries(26) Supported: US, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore

Currencies(17) Supported: USD, EUR, CAD, CZK, DKK, HUF, NOK, PLN, SEK, CHF, GBP, AUD, HKD, JPY, MXN, NZD, SGD

Marketplace already has 500+ apps and 100+ datasets. This is great time for partners with Azure apps to get them on Windows Azure Marketplace. Please see more details on publishing here.