Windows Marketplace is a bit like the Red Hat Exchange: it's a place to learn about, download, and try applications that run on Windows. It's a Microsoft site that aims to increase use of Windows.
It's not, however, limited to Microsoft and its proprietary friends, as this picture shows:
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