The Windows Phone Marketplace application store has hit 30,000 applications in their directory. Since the beginning of July, the number of applications grew from 25,000 to 30,000. Some stats about Windows Phone Marketplace includes:

- 989 apps have been added in the last two weeks
- 75 percent of apps are in english
- 8 percent of apps are games
- 47 percent of apps are free

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) Corporate Vice President of Windows Phone Program Management Joe Belfiore held a keynote speech today. He apologized for the slowness of Windows Phone 7 devices, but said that the company is rolling out some updates soon.

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has hit the 5,000 application milestone. Every day several new applications on the Windows Phone Marketplace is being approved. You can find the apps in the Zune software under Marketplace/Apps and in the Visual Search in Bing.com. [LiveSide.net]

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is investing a lot of time and money on Windows Phone 7.  PocketGamer has reported that Microsoft is contacting several “successful iPhone developers” to port their applications to WP7 Marketplace for cash in return.  However porting apps over won’t be easy for developers.