Though Windows Phone 7 has only been available to consumers for a little over four months , developer tools for the platform have been available for more than a year . To celebrate the first full year of Windows Phone development, Microsoft's Brandon Watson has revealed a list of statistics that loosely approximate the size and scope of the platform's third-party developer community.

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Launched as a rival to the iPod, Microsoft's quaintly brown-coloured music player arrived with great expectations, and leaves a great disappointment.

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Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 platform has caught on with developers in the year since the platform's development tools were first shown, a Microsoft executive stressed Thursday in a blog entry featuring a variety of numbers related to Microsoft's entrant in the highly competitive smartphone market.

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One year after the Windows Phone 7 developer tools were released, Microsoft cites numbers to show the popularity of the OS with developers.

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The platform's developer tools have been downloaded more than 1.5 million times, and the Marketplace boasts 11,500 apps

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While Microsoft is claiming it has nearly 12 thousand apps for Windows Phone 7 already, it's trying to keep developers focused on writing more.

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IDC's surprising forecast that Windows Phone will surge to second place in global smartphone OSes by 2015 -- up from its current fifth place standing -- has some support from other analysts.

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IDC analysts are forecasting that Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 will have 20.9 percent of the global smartphone market by 2015 -- identical with IDC's 2011 market-share estimate for Nokia's Symbian platform. But much depends on whether Nokia can successfully transition to Phone 7 without losing a significant number of Symbian users.

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Computerworld - Microsoft bragged Thursday about growth in its Windows Phone 7 (WP7) developer community one year after its birth, but immediately got blasted for not disclosing developer revenues.

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At the MIX10 conference, Microsoft released its platform and free tools to app developers and told them to get started. A year later, Windows Phone 7 Director Brandon Watson seems quite excited about some statistics detailed at the Windows Developer … Continue reading →

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