Web-based Windows Phone App Store Coming Later This Year

One of Windows Phone 7’s weak spots was its app store (Marketplace). The Marketplace is limited to the phone and the Zune desktop app. I rarely use the Zune Deskop which self-limits my app search to the phone itself. The original Marketplace app on the phone had the unfortunate behavior of returning search results from all the store’s contents including songs. This made finding apps based on keyword searches very difficult. This issue was fixed in the NoDo update earlier this year.