To view the full article in its entirety, please visit eWeek: Intel AppUp Store Exits Beta

Intel's AppUp application store for MeeGo and Windows applications is now out of beta, nine months after being introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show.

Renee James, vice president and general manager of Intel's Software and Solutions Group, said during her keynote at the Intel Developer Forum here Sept. 14 that in its beta run since January, about 450,000 users had hopped into the AppUp store.

In addition, the AppUp store and the Atom Developer Program, introduced at the IDF event in 2009, are being combined. The Atom Developer Program will now be called the AppUp Developer Program.

"There's so much momentum between the two of them," James said during her talk.

The online applications store can be accessed via Best Buy's Website, and later this year from Dixons, a U.K.-based retailer, and Croma, in India. Asus announced its own version of the AppUp center, called the Asus App Store. That will be available on every Asus netbook starting in October. Intel's store also will come preloaded on netbooks from Samsung later this year.

In addition, Barnes & Noble will put an app for its Nook e-reader into the AppUp store, she said.