Windows Phone 7 is in the home stretch with the phones on track to hit store shelves in the next couple of months.
So, can Microsoft’s comeback plan compete against the increasing dominance of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) and Android? One way to measure is by how many apps the platform has, and today, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) hints that it has hundreds of thousands of interested developers lined up and waiting to bring applications to the platform.
In a blog post today, a director in Microsoft

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