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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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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According to the folks at Tech Crunch, Microsoft will be spending around 400 million dollars on the marketing alone at the launch of Windows Phone 7.

This, however, does not include the millions that has already been committed to pay for the non-recurring engineering costs that help to lower the development costs for the OEMs and handset manufactures.

[via techcrunch]

Windows Phone 7 OS is intelligent enough not to use data when roaming. On the statusbar, there is a triangle that indicates that your are roaming and it automatically disables data access. That said, for some reason, if you would like to keep that option on, there is a way to do that too.

Just go to “Data Roaming Options” and set it to “Roam” to enable data while Roaming. [via]