Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 marketplace has been found to be growing at roughly a thousand applications every two weeks after it emerged the application storesurpassed 9,000 appstoday.
The marketplace eclipsed 8,000 inmid-February, detailing the total in a Microsoft blog post shortly after the companysigned a dealwith Nokia to provide its mobile operating system on Nokia handsets. With 8000 applications and games on the Windows Phone Marketplace at the time, there were also 28,000 registered developers and over 1 million developer tools downloaded.
At its current growth rate, the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace should top 10,000 applications by the middle of March, although growth is expected to accelerate as Nokia eases the transition between Qt and Symbian development and the Windows Phone 7 ecoystem.
Microsoft hasn’t officially confirmed the milestone so we must wait until a member of the Redmond-based company mentions the total in one of its next team blog posts or at the next popular event.
Story byMatt Brian
Matt is the former News Editor for The Next Web. You can follow him on Twitter, subscribe to his updates on Facebook and catch up with him(show all)Matt is the former News Editor for The Next Web. You can follow him onTwitter, subscribe to his updates onFacebookand catch up with him onGoogle+.
Get the TNW newsletter
Get the most important tech news in your inbox each week.
