Microsoft bans adult content from Windows Marketplace

As reported by IntoMobile, Microsoft has followed Apple’s example and disallowed suggestive or pornographic content in the Windows Marketplace for mobile.

Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 Application Certification Requirements document stipulates a range of inclusions considered unacceptable, including gambling, intoxicating substances, and, of course, porn.

One specific line defines inappropriate content as “Content that a reasonable person would consider to be adult”. Unreasonable persons need not apply, then.

Membership to Microsoft’s new platform will cost developers $99, with an industry standard 70 per cent return on any generated revenue.