Despite the fact that the penetration of OS Windows Phone on the market of mobile devices does not allow the system considered one of the leaders, but by some measures, it could compete with them. In May of this year, the number of applications that can be downloaded from the store in your smartphone Windows Phone Marketplace has exceeded 100,000. A higher number may be attached only to the leaders - Android and iOS. The growing number of applications is also comparable with those operating systems. For Windows Phone achieve one hundred thousandth abroad took 20 months, while in the Android application store, he was overcome only after 24 months. iOS gained applications faster - at Apple's AppStore 100000th application appeared in the 17th month of life. Of these more than 100 000 applications around the world (more precisely 60 countries where the official announcement on the OS Windows Phone) are available for download is actually a little more than 88 thousand, the remainder being local or inaccessible applications. Every day in the Windows Phone Marketplace appears around 300 new applications, and this is not the limit. Popularization of the operating system by Microsoft and Nokia continues to bear fruit, even greater growth in popularity will upgrade to Windows Phone Apollo, although it is not clear how the "old" smart phones will be compatible with the new operating system.