Windows Phone 7 has now officially hit “release to manufacturing” stage. The OS has been finalized and is now being delivered to the OEMs that will continue their work of integrating the software with the hardware.

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As the official release date of new Windows Phone market approaches, more and more developers are showing interest in WP7 app development. Sigurd, a geek has released an app that allows you to view Channel9 right on the Windows Phone 7 device.

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Microsoft will be spending somewhere between 400 million to 1 billion dollars at the launch of Windows Phone 7 launch. Microsoft will be releasing the final version of the Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools on September 16 this year that will allow the developers to recompile their apps before the relaunch of the Windows Phone Marketplace.

Microsoft is investing a lot to lure the developers to make exiting apps for Windows Phone to make them understand the platform.

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Folks at Microsoft have finalized what categories of apps will be offered at the Windows Phone MarketPlace. There will be 41 categories and sub-categories in total. The developer will be asked to choose from one of the categories.

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Someone at xda-devs has unveiled a really slick, yet simple stock quote app that features HTC Sense-like interface. The app fetches its data from the Yahoo Finances. But here is the best thing I love about this app – it is available free of cost. [link]