A couple of weeks ago Microsoft applauded itself for having gotten its first thousand applications in the Windows Phone 7 online store. Today the milestone is repeated, and 2,000 downloadable programs have already been signed from the Redmond operating system Marketplace for smart phones. In addition, Microsoft has announced that there are currently 13,000 developers registered to propose applications to be uploaded to the Marketplace, so the catalog of the online store could skyrocket in the coming days, when all users get to work.
The mobile Windows Phone 7 just released in the United States, the main battlefield of Microsoft for its new line of smartphones, so it is expected that in about a month, the number of applications from the Marketplace experience a sharp increase of downloadable programs. According to statements by Microsoft itself, in their estimates they did not expect to reach this figure in early November, also noting that the results have doubled what they expected to achieve at this point.
Of course, these are not figures to compare with iPhone or Android (which already gather 300,000 and 100,000 applications, respectively, from their App Store and Android Market), but they are certainly very remarkable compared to the results of Microsoft's previous adventure in this land with the Windows Mobile Store.
For now, Microsoft does not venture to openly set new goals for the end of 2010, nor are they rushing to encrypt how many applications they hope to gather during next 2011. For now, at this point, the Marketplace and brings together developers from 30 countries, which also expect segmenting demand depending on the place where they are sold and consumed mobile Windows Phone 7.
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