Windows Phone Marketplace has been operated for business for a year, and now Microsoft has released a new figure for it that the number of apps here has arrived to 11,500 of which 7,500 are paid apps and 1,110 are free apps. The number is still in a fast growing.

Since the Windows Phone 7, Microsoft is trying hard to run after Apple and Google. Now it’s still a long way for Microsoft. The app number in App Store has reached 350 thousand, and the download has been over 10 billion. But Microsoft seems not worry at all about it. Brandon Watson said on his blog that Microsoft cares more about the quality rather than the quantity, and the number of the apps only relays on high-quality ones, low-grade apps are not included.

Microsoft reports that over 36,000 people and companies now form its Windows Phone community with another 1200 joining each week.

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Someone has been talking about Windows Phone 7 feels like an iPhone from the future, the UI has the simplicity and elegance of Apple’s industrial design, while the iPhone’s UI still feels like a colorized Palm Pilot.

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Microsoft force its entry on mobile market with the Windows Phone 7.

Windows Phone 7 devices will come this fall initially work with GSM carriers such as AT&T and T-Mobile, but will not include carriers of CDMA technology. ”Microsoft chose to focus on delivering a great GSM version to the world first, and then a great CDMA version in the first half of 2011,” a Microsoft spokesman said Friday via e-mail.

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