VLC For Windows 8/RT/Windows Phone 8 Kickstarter Ends at £47,056

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Finally a Month long KickStarter program has ended for the VLC Player for Windows 8/RT and Windows Phone 8 version of the highly popular Media application.

The campaign goal was £40,000 but due to immense response by the users the Campaign ended with £47,056 in 30 days with 3080 backers and it seems like they are already working on the application,as a messege on the KickStarter page saying,

Dear backers,

This is the end of our Kickstarter campaign.

Just one thing: thank you!

We’ll keep you posted about our developments very quickly!

VLC is already available as a Desktop application for Windows 8 as The operating system supports all the legacy applications in the Desktop Mode,but due to the limitations of the Windows RT platform there was a Need for the Modern UI based application for the VLC Player.This is a good sign for the ecosystem as this will encourage more developers to port their apps to Windows RT platform along with Windows 8.

Source[Kickstarter]

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Barrie-Jones/713451814 Barrie Jones

    Hey this is great, the much anticipated and hyped Windows 8 will possibly, maybe, might, eventually reach the same market share as one of the worst recent versions of Windows…
    Somehow, that just doesn’t seem worth celebrating….

    • newyorkcitymale

      Sure it’s worth celebrating. Windows 8 will soon pass Mac OSX, and then Vista, and then keep going. No one said that Windows 8 would stop rising once it reached Vista’s numbers… so I’m not sure why you’re assuming that.

  • newyorkcitymale

    The 1.72% number is actually an average of Windows 8 usage over the course of the month of December. Therefore, since there were probably a lot of new Windows 8 devices opened on Christmas day, but only averaged into the last 7 days of the average, the January numbers will actually be a more accurate measure of December–and probably a bit higher.