Microsoft appears to be reconsidering a decision to bar an application from the Windows Phone 7 market, in one of the first tests of the software giant's mobile approval process.



From PC World:

The developer of an application called Imagewind reported that after Microsoft approved the app in mid-March, the company this week asked him to make onerous changes or pull the application from the market.

Imagewind displays in real time images that people post on Twitter using tools like Twitpic.

After submitting an update to the application, Roger Peters, the developer, received a note from Microsoft this week asking him to filter the content. "While the images shown are dynamic, per your app's disclaimer, a portion of the images' content is too graphic for the app to be permissible in Marketplace. In order to be permissible, there would need to be a content filter before surfacing images since users are not querying a specific type of image and are rather pushed to them," according to the note signed by the Windows Phone Marketplace Policy team.

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