Microsoft has reason to celebrate today as new estimates put the current app total in the Windows Phone Marketplace at over 5,000 individual applications. Not bad for a two month old platform, eh? Last month, Palm supposedly eclipsed the 5,000 app barrier themselves, though their situation is rather dissimilar to Microsoft’s — Microsoft has many more phones and upcoming devices in the pipeline which ultimately help push developer interest and app sales. Not to mention, they did spend quite a bit of money early on enticing developers with monetary gifts to jump their current platform’s ship and join Windows Phone 7.

Celebrating a 4-digit number may seem trivial compared to Android’s 200,000+ news or iOS’s 300,000+ app count, but it is important nonetheless. It will be interesting to see Windows Phone 7′s progress this time next year. On that note, I’m going to guestimate roughly 50,000+ apps available in late 2011. Anyone want to toss in a guess?

Via: IntoMobile, WP Central